ADDRESSES 



TO THE 



DISPERSED OF JUDAH. 



BY 



HARRIET LIVERMORE. 



n 



WITH 



AN APPENDIX. 




" Sanctify the LORD of hosts Himself, and let Him be your fear ; and let Him be your 
dread."-ISAIAH 8. 13. 

" Be not afraid of them that kill the body, and after that have no more that they can 
do. Fear Him which after He hath killed, hath power to cast into hell. Yea, I say unto 
you, fear Him I"— Christ to His Disciples— LUKE 12. 4, 5. 

" The remnant of Jacob shall return unto the Mighty GOD."— ISAIAH 10. 21. 



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Entered according to the Act of Congress, in the year 1849, 

BY HARRIET LIVERMORE, 

the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States in and 
the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. 



ADDRESSES. 



TO MY SUBSCRIBERS. 



The primary object of the following Addresses to the Jews, 
is, confession to the Name of Jesus, that He is Lord, to the 
Glory of God the Father ; and to testify openly that the Gos- 
pel of Christ is the dispensation of a New Covenant (foretold 
by Jeremiah) that should be ratified with the tribes of Jacob, 
after the days of the Law, as a covenant of works had been 
proved, which, flesh and blood of Adam's race cannot fulfill; 
therefore God sent His Son into the world, to work righte- 
ousness equal to the Law; and to make an Attonement for 
Adam's sin, that Salvation might be proclaimed to his race: 
that this Attonement is Divine, although outwardly sealed 
by a human body nailed to a gibbet, and hanged upon a tree; 
and the final result of this Attonement shall be, restitution 
to God, of His Glory, in a new creation by Christ Jesus, both 
literal and spiritual, to the praise and glory of God : that the 
manner of God in all this work, is, to constitute His Image 
(in which man was made,) a Mediator ; and as such, the 



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Word must ordain and order all covenants, from the rainbow 
to Moriah, Sinai, Calvary, and the Ages to come : that this 
Mediator, is Existence as the Father; and because He is 
Mediator, a failure is impossible. " Heaven and earth shall 
pass away," but His word shall remain forever : that this 
Mediator is Abraham's God, Isaac's Fear, and Jacob's God: 
that He is the Shepherd and the Rock of Israel ; and His in- 
carnation is the Mystery hid in God until the fulness of time; 
and is manifest to faith, necessary for the destruction of Evil 
as for the restoration of good: that by taking human nature 
upon Himself, He was capacitated to suffer ; but never to sin; 
and so is called "the Lamb of God:" that having once 
adopted a human form, He will retain it forever, being glo- 
rified by the Father with the glory which He had before 
ever the world was. 

This confession is my object; and apostacy from Christi- 
anity in these evil days, has extorted it from me, especially 
the last written, and first in this Book. Now, I am aware 
of my insufficiency and unworthiness to engage in such a 
work. I do not need to be told that the worth of my labours 
is comparative with the smallest grain of dust; and that I am 
less than nothing and vanity; but what of all this? Do I not 
know, and does not my conscience bear witness to my poor 
heart, that God hath visited my lost soul with His Salvation? 
Yes. I am as sensible of the presence of Mercy, that relieves 
me of sin, as I am of the rod of correction; and know that 
pardon is afforded me through Jesus' precious Blood ; and 
in His Love He rebukes and chastens me for my good. Infi- 
nite Mercy pours assurance into my soul, that Jesus prays for 
me on high; and by His holy intercession I have His Spirit, 



TO SUBSCRIBERS. 5 

so that I am enabled to pray for myself ; and His dear chil- 
dren* can pray for me : yea, and I can pray, " Thy kingdom 
come." 

To the death of Christ, I am in debt for my life ; and I have 
a right to publish truth, if I obtain a sufficient subscription to 
pay for it. Truth is truth, even from my very womanish 
pen. Marching into the battle-field with plain wooden clogs, 
and head bare of the laurels so lovely to human sight, truth 
cries, The Bruiser of Woman's original foe, must be praised 
by Woman. If I cannot rise above the swallow's note, my 
inmost desire crowns Him 

" Lord of All ;" and to whom should I recommend the 
Lamb, at this day, but to the Dispersed of Judah ? I know 
He is their only Helper. After a banishment from the tem- 
ple Hill, of 1779 years, are they to be restored by consent 
and agency of human sort ? ! no, never ! 

The British Parliament, the will of a Pope, the revolutions 
of Europe, the seeming lenity of Russia, the apparent indul- 
gence of Mohammed, and Liberty Poles on the Land of the 
overspreading wing, can do God's ancient people no good ! 
God is unchangeable. He will never save Judah by Bow, 
nor by sword, nor by battle, nor by horses, nor by horsemen; 
but by 

"Adonai, their God," which is Christ. 
The present aspect of religious affairs, betokens Paul's tes- 
timony to a falling away, to have its fulfilment in our time, 
that is, now, and to finish shortly. As the great apostle of 



* I know of two that pray for me. One is a descendant from the Indians — 
the other a widow of threescore and ten. 



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the Gentiles, declared it impossible to renew again to repent- 
ance, those who fall away, assigning for a reason, that they 
crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh, and put Him to 
open shame, we may well shudder at the prospect before us, 
even if our souls glow with animated hope of preservation 
amid the horrors of that hour of temptation, which is to come 
upon all the world, when the Jews get a Captain or King at 
Jerusalem. A proselyte to Judaism must curse Christ at his 
initiation! This is awful! But this blasphemy is supplanted 
by a shout from the whole world (except a remnant) of praise 
to the Wild Beast from the bottomless pit, who will sit in the 
temple of God, showing himself that he is God. 

Anti-Christ is Jerusalem's last Woe. In the " vile person" 
Satan is incarnate ; and as Christ receives dominion from the 
Ancient of days, while the devil is triumphant over Zion by 
worship paid to the man of sin, there is no opportunity for 
an escape from that body, except Christ command "come out 
of the man," which the Ancient of days will not do, for Sa- 
tan's hour is come, when the Man Christ Jesus is glorified 
by title of Ancient of days; for it is He that comes to deliver 
Zion from the extra and terrible Horn 1 

There is one blessed encouragement for the children of 
God, in that dreadful time, times, and half time, of Satan's 
dominion by the Vile. It is this: the devil's spiritual reign 
is finished. He is cast out of heaven (the airy regions) into 
the earth, and possesses a body prepared for a short time. 
He has no power to tempt the saints, or to accuse them be- 
fore God. The saints overcome him by the blood of the 
Lamb and the word of their testimony ; and yield up their 
lives as a widow's mite, to increase the treasury of faith. 



TO SUBSCRIBERS. 7 

Happy dead, that die for the Lord!!! Heirs of an honour 
that no son or daughter of fallen Adam can possibly deserve! 
To die for the Lord ! Let us ponder the mighty contrast, 
"He died for us!" Now look, g^p* Infinite Love was the 
passion of His suffering the sufferings of death whose power 
is the devil. "The sting of death is sin." It is the sting of 
an adder that kills a man ; but we view the adder as the 
means of his dissolution. Death received, and holds his 

power in Satan, who is the first sinner. « What concord 

had Christ with Belial?" None! Not a particle ! Neither 
in birth, breath, or grief! How could Death take Him? 
Death could not take Him ! Impossible! How was it then? 
Precisely as He said, 

" I lay down my Life." 

Infinite Purity reigned triumphant in Christ. By Him came 
righteousness without spot. Holy as He descended, so did 
He return to the Father, bearing glorified humanity into 
Heaven, recognized as the Martyr Lamb, the Lamb of God, 
that taketh away the sin of the world. 

Only by His death, can the serpent's sting be extracted 
from our souls ; but our bodies* are dead already with Him ; 
and their restoration is a concern of his resurrection from the 
dead; and if, by Grace of the Spirit of Christ, believers 
"sleep in Jesus," still the form of that repose is Death. 
That sleep is broken by the trump of God; and sounds 
through the tombs by Jesus, the Martyr Lamb ! 

" It is the Spirit that quickeneth ;" and the special grace of 
God reviveth us with Christ, so that an encounter with death 



* I mean true believers in Christ. 



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for His Name, is far from meritorious on our part. It is all 
of grace, and is supported by faith, the gift of God. A soul 
deeply exercised by the spirit of truth, is likely to groan be- 
neath the burden of mortal breath, and may long to get free: 
yet the unknown valley, lonely to sense, dark and cold to the 
remains of animal sensation, and the untried conflict, seem- 
ingly too awful to endure, appal the meditative believer and 
cause a shrinking back, or clinging to the prison walls of the 
soul redeemed by the precious Blood of the Lamb. A vio- 
lent death seems more awful; and even the renewed part re- 
lucts therefrom, because of remaining fears that clash with 
faith, and hinder her triumph. But, I do believe, that there 
may exist in the soul, a lively consciousness of desire to die 
for the faith of Jesus, although a true sense of unworthi- 
ness and unpreparedness may be present in the mind that 
dwells much on the contrast between souls of Adam's race, 
and the human nature of Christ. If we would take comfort 
by this contrast, the God and Father of our Lord's human 
nature, (which was named Jesus), would take more pleasure 
in us as little children, because we should be thankful for it, 
and more devoutly adore the holy Mystery, that a sinless 
man should be made a curse. We profess that we thus be- 
lieve ; and we intend to be honest about it. This is my case; 
and 1 can say that Calvary is far more awful to me than Si- 
nai. The terrors of the law compel me to flee for my life to 
Calvary ; but when I get there, I drop down dead at the 
sound " It is finished." From this a full resurrection faith is 
absolutely necessary ; and without it we cannot be healthy 
Christians. For one I rejoice in that blessed word of pro- 
phecy, 



TO SUBSCRIBERS. 



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"A bruised reed shall He not break, 

"And the smoking flax shall He not quench. 

"He shall bring forth judgment 

"Unto Truth."— Isaiah 42. 3. 
0! I rejoice as one that findeth great spoil; and especially 
when I read its proof from the blessed lips of the Lamb of 
God, 

" Come unto me all ye that labour and are heavy laden ; 
and I will give you rest." 

Of one thing I am perfectly convinced ; and confess it is of 
grace. ! that my obedience might seal my assent. When 
Jesus said to His disciples, "Abide in me, and I in you," I 
know He spake not of His personal Kingship upon David's 
throne, which is Mount Zion ; but of His eternal power and 
Godhead. No half way rest is on the ladder Jacob saw, for 
me. My faith not only climbs to the very top, but steps off 
into God, Eve's Maker, Mary Magdalen's Rabboni ; and as 
to theory, there I do abide. I never come out, nor come 
down, to grovel in the earth, however good it may be. But 
there is another division, or section of grace in which I am 
exceedingly deficient ; and 1 will confess it. While I listen 
to Christ as God speaking to me, and adore His Name (Je- 
sus), thus owning His adoption of humanity, I am too un- 
steady to the faith of the Comforter, that Christ promised to 
send ; and this faultiness causes me to exclaim, " ! that my 
obedience might seal my assent;" for the words "and I in 
you," show that our Lord Jesus is that Spirit: to cherish 
Christ is all of true religion ; and how is this to be done ? Is 
it not by the ministration of the Spirit, which is the Holy 
Ghost, who taketh of Jesus, and showeth me His personal 
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sufferings, and His personal glory, teaching me that I must 
fellowship the first, or I can never praise the other? Yes 3 
and I am very disobedient ; loth to be sick, to be poor, to be 
a lonely wanderer, and a neglected one, and an outcast. Yet 
1 hate all this contrariety to the Cross ; and pray against it. 
I am truly stripped of every plea why judgment should not 
pass against me, except this : "Jesus died ! ! ! 

The falling away of several professors of Christianity to 
Judaism, now alarms me; and "Remember Lot's wife" is 
the watch-word for this time; for such full Apostacy surely 
premonishes that persecution of the household is at hand; 
and .our Lord's doctrine as recorded Mark 8. 35 — 38, is in 
immediate requisitiveness for every Christian at this time. 
I believe these verses were designed to be particularly re- 
versionary to gospel believers on this very account. 

Now I will present them on this page ; — and shall take in 
the thirty-fourth verse. 

"And when He had called the people unto Him with His 
disciples also, He said unto them" (i. e. to His disciples, and 
let the people hear also) "whosoever will come after me, let 
Him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me." 

"For whosoever will save his life shall lose it; but who- 
soever shall lose his life for my sake and the gospel's, the 
same shall save it." 

" For what shall it profit a man if he shall gain the whole 
world, and lose his own soul? 

"Or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?" 

Whosoever therefore shall be ashamed of me and of my 
words in this adulterous and sinful* generation, of him also 



* Pharisees and Sadducees, and such hypocrites as Judas Iseariot! 



TO SUBSCRIBERS. 



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shall the Son of man be ashamed when He cometh in the 
Glory of His Father with the holy angels. 

The Lord Jesus Christ constantly preached for the last 
days; and so did His Apostles write. Did not our Lord 
predict the presence of Apollyon in Jerusalem previous to 
the Glory of His second Advent? Yes. Did not Paul report 
both? Yes. If we believe not Christ and His Apostles, and 
obey not the Gospel, how can we escape the strong delusion? 
Except death interpose, and the grave hide us, I believe we 
must suffer. 

Now, just a word more. Apostacy to Moslem fables, or 
to Rome, would be judged by Protestants and Dissenters as 
fearful signs of Evil; but what is the comparison between 
them and modern Judaism? First, Rome. Has she ever 
denied a Trinity in the Godhead. No! Second, Islam- 
ism. Is Christ pronounced accursed of God in the Alcoran? 
No. I do not believe it impossible for a believer in Mahomet 
to repent and confess the Gospel; but an apostate from 
Christianity to Judaism I view as beyond the reach of a 
pardon. If I met with an apostate from Christianity to 
Islamism, I should not be afraid to entreat him with tears 
to cry for mercy; but to the other I would not speak at all. 
I believe in the Holy Ghost. The ineffable Name is in Him, 
which Jesus inherits forever. The Holy Ghost will not par- 
don. See Exodus twenty-third chapter, twenty-first verse. 
0! how glorious is the incarnation of Israel's Holy One! 
In it He possesses a Name that no man can know but He 
Himself. And when Jesus comes out of Heaven, to save 
Zion, He will avenge the Holy Ghost. He cannot pardon 
blasphemy against His Angel whom He sent to guide Israel 



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through the wilderness. It is impossible! There is not a 
doubt but this sin is the procuring cause of the great woe, 
"they shall BELIEVE a Lie." Yes. Because of unbelief in 
the Spirit that brought Jesus into the world, that brought 
Him again from the dead, and is the Glory of His Advent in 
the times of restitution to God, therefore wrath must come 
upon them to the uttermost, wrath that waxeth hot in Jeru- 
salem and shall burn even to the lowest Jiell. Deut. 32. In 
that time of the Lord's fierce anger, two parts of the Jews 
will be cut off and die. The other (i. e. a third part) will I 
bring through the fire, (saith Adonai) refined as silver, and 
tried as gold. They shall call upon the Name of the Lord, 
and confess that Jesus is their God. Blessed remnant! the 
election of grace unto Glory that shall never fade away! 
This remnant is addressed in that day as Zion; and we may 
well suppose they mourn for the great destruction. But 
hear the voice of Him whose holy hands were pierced for 
their sins. 

"Lift up thine eyes round about and behold! Then the 
church exclaims, " Who are these that fly as a cloud, and 
as doves to their windows? I have lost my children. Who 
hath brought up these? These where have they been?" 

Rachel, as a type of the church is told in the midst of her 
grief, to refrain her voice from weeping, and her eyes from 
tears, for her children shall come again to their own border. 
Well might Joseph be recognized as the Increase of God's 
elect; for upon Ephraim is sealed the prophecy of a multitude 
that shall fill the holy land with flocks of men, saying " the 
place is too strait for me, give me place where I may dwell." 
It is manifest truth that Jacob gave to Rachel's first born a 



TO SUBSCRIBERS. 13 

more decided testimony of the Divinity of Christ, than to 
Judah: "from thence is the Shepherd, the Stone of Israel," 
comparative with "God sent His Son into the world;" and 
the words, "The Mighty God of Jacob, answer to Zion's 
confession (see Isaiah 9. 6,) of the holy child, the given Son," 
whose Name is pronounced, " The Mighty God, the Prince 
of Peace." 

Jacob blessed Joseph as a type of the Messiah, and Joseph's 
children as Messiah's flock in that day, when Israel shall 
know that Christ is the Lord. Ephraim is the strength of 
David's Head (which is Messiah) ; and the blessings of Jacob 
shall be on His crown (the Nazarene) which Jerusalem pre- 
sents in the day of " His espousals." (Rev. 20. Isa. 60.) 
This blessing prevails to the utmost bound of the everlasting 
hills; and the latter intend all "the Lord's Land" (Hephzilah, 
His delight) even the married Land (Beulah); and is styled 
"The City" by Ezekiel, and in the Divine Apocalypse is 
called "the holy Jerusalem;" after all things are made new. 
It is indeed a marvellous show of original independent grace 
to Jacob, that the eldest son born to Rachel (by Bilhah) has 
possession of a gate facing the rise of the sun, in company 
with Rachel's Increase, and her Benoni, whom Jacob claim- 
ed for the son of his right hand. See what election proves: 
the infinite forbearance of God. A Gate signifies power, 
dominion, strength and righteousness. "Dan shall judge 
his people as one of the tribes of Israel:" i. e. he must do it, 
because he is one of the tribes. But this is after the Millen- 
nium. During that period the twelve apostles of Christ judge 
the twelve tribes of Israel; and Dan has then no name among 
the saints. Manasseh is sealed in his stead. In pursuit of 



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the cause of Dan's exclusion from the Book of Life of the 
Lamb, my attention is arrested by Jacob's declaration that 
Dan shall be a Serpent, &c. This title of Satan and the Devil, 
(a murderer from the beginning, and the father of lies) is due 
to Anti-Christ as son of perdition, and the devil incarnate. I 
notice also that Moses calls Dan a lion's whelp, as Jacob said 
of Judah. Anti-Christ of course will exhibit the properties 
of the Lion as a beastly king, and the king of beasts, and 
there is no doubt of his human origin, that he is a descendant 
of Jacob by Bilhah, (" old and fading") and " he obtains the 
kingdom by flatteries;" for to him it does not belong by 
descent. How righteous is the judgment, that Dan shall 
overthrow the devil at last, even by low, mean artifices, 
which is signified by creeping in the long grass, to bite the 
horse heels, and cause two-thirds of Judah to revolt that they 
may be slain. But, how does it happen that the extra horn 
on the head of the fourth beast, is a descendant from Dan? 
Two prominent prophecies are ready, 1. "They shall be 
wanderers among the nations."* 2. "Lo, I will command, 
and I will sift the house of Israel among all nations, like as 
corn is sifted in a sieve." 

We are not to look to the dispersed of Judah, nor to the 
Protestant church for Anti-Christ. He comes first from the 
iron kingdom, and last from the bottomless pit. His descent 
from Jacob is by a circuitous path. Starting from the post of 
idolatry 2,520 years gone by, some family of Dan may have 
been driven from country to country, till the birth of Abad- 
donapollyon took place; and the spot of earth that is called 



* The Ten Tribes. 



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his birth place, is as likely to touch on Greece as any where, 
although Gaul may have borne his mother. Of course mystery 
is to hang over him, as the head of iniquity. 

Dan and Ephraim have no memorial on the Mountain of 
Zion during the Millennium. Joseph and Manasseh are 
recorded with Reuben, Simeon, Levi, Judah, Benjamin, Issa- 
char, Gad, Naphtali, Asher, and Zebulon. These names 
enrol the remnant that escape from destruction by rejecting 
Anti-Christ;* and what a lovely song will they sing, gazing 
upon their Glory, when He sits as priest upon His throne. 

" Lo ! this is our God ! 

" We have waited for Him ! 

" And He will save us ! 

" This is Adonai, 

" We have waited for Him, 

" We will be glad, 

" And rejoice in His salvation." 

It is a just and righteous decision of the Father above, that 
the generation which demanded the destruction of Jesus, 
should be visited in their descendants by such a woe, even 
the crooked serpent, hid in leaven of wickedness, a body pre- 
pared, that is illegitimate in his beginning, and man of sin at 
his coming to reign. Such is the fruit of unbelief in the pur- 
pose of God. Lamentable case ! My soul, dost thou mourn? 
Art thou sorry for Jerusalem ? Are Jesus' tears precious to 
thee ? ! Lord, thou knowest ! And for this I can thank 
the great God of Heaven, that the Joy of Christ is my 



* Through grace. 



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ADDRESS. 



strength in the midst of trouble, even restitution to God by- 
Christ Jestjs the Lord, who hath sworn by Himself that unto 
Him every knee shall bow and every tongue confess; and 
the whole earth shall be filled with His Glory. 

Amen. 



ADDRESS. 



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TO MY FRIENDS IN THE CITY AND COUNTY OF 
PHILADELPHIA. 

I present to you, my sincere and devoted regard, with 
unfeigned thanks for your kindness toward me in affording 
aid for publication of my works, when I have asked the fa- 
vour. In the years 1826-7-31-36-39-44-48 and '49, 1 have 
had books printed in your beautiful city; and have fully paid 
for them, by kindness of my friends. I now issue the last; 
and so take my leave of the Press, aware that sickness and 
age compel my resignation of a Pen that has never flattered 
my native ambition to please ; or, made Harriet rich. From 
all that I can learn, my labours with my Pen and by the 
Press are almost lost on the present generation; and I am 
sorry. It is, however, given me to rejoice, that here and 
there an aged saint of my own sex has been refreshed by my 
testimony. This is a source of comfort that originates in 
humble love of the Name I adore; and is far more desirable 
to a wayworn pilgrim than perishable rewards, whether of 
money or fame. 

Farewell, dear friends. 

May we be prepared to meet God ; and to give up our 
account with joy and not with grief, when summoned to 
stand before the judgment-seat of Christ. 

Thus prayeth your friend, 

H. LIVERMORE. 

Philadelphia, ) 
April, A. D. 1849. \ 

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TO THE DISPERSED OF JUDAH. 



By changes of times human purposes are broken ; and 
revolutions expose the futility of mortal enterprise, the insuf- 
ficiency of earthly riches, and vanity of human works of 
every grade and name. Opinion, taste, affection, and influ- 
ence, generally operate to favour all that is honourable in the 
estimation of men, who sit in Moses' seat, or wear Paul's 
gown, or wield the sword of Caesar. 

By changes of times the purposes of God (as revealed in 
His lively Oracles), stand firm in the Divine Counsels, 
brought to light by the doctrines of the Cross of Christ ; and 
every change admonishes of proximity to the great Judgment 
Day. Thus we confess, that when Medo-Persia conquered 
Babylon, the golden head of Gentile dominion was struck off, 
and Nebuchadnezzar's image suffered loss that shall not be 
made up until Anti-Christ appears for the devil's short time 
of great wrath. When the Macedonian eagle fastened his 
talons on Persia, the breast and arms of silver disappeared ; 
and as Brass denotes a compound of pride and impudence, 
the Gentile sway renewed its strength for a time, but the 
name of Alexander must decline, and the Brass is no more ; 
for Rome was destined by Jerusalem's Judge, to occupy His 



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holy Hill with the sword and the plough, that God might 
glorify His Word to earth's remotest bound. 

As the birth of Christ took place just as the fulness (or fin- 
ishing, or completing) of Gentile sway over the Holy Land, 
was coming by Iron? so, in these dark times, the advent of 
Satan must take place at the crisis of Christendom's reign by 
forms and ceremonies without the power of God. 

Such thoughts as I have expressed, very readily move my 
mind, on taking up my pen to write a brief confession of the 
principal motive that urged my attempt to address the Dis- 
persed of Judah, in A. D. 1847; and likewise to express my 
sorrow that traces of the remnant, elect to escape the result! 
of Christendom's failure, are so rare at this eventful time. 

" Hear, Israel!" 

" Let not the wise man glory in his wisdom, neither let the 

* The basest of metals, although it partakes of the malleability and ductile- 
nessofgold and silver, and is useful. It is capable of refinement which in- 
creases its original property, which is hardness ; and this word is capacious of 
a resolve into every sort of opposition to human enjoyment. Instruments of 
cruelty and death are mostly manufactured from iron and steel : the former is 
used for shackles, or chains for the feet and hands ; and it is remarkable that 
in the battle of that great Day of God Almighty, the Sword of the Spirit shall 
bind with chains and fetters of iron, the ten kings (all of Roman origin politi- 
cally and ecclesiastically) that give their power and strength to the Beast 
from the bottomless pit. — It seems that Rome was elect in the Divine mind to 
move Israel to jealousy in the latter days. What must have been the sensations 
of Jews at Rome, when Constantine the Great declared that Christ on His 
Cross appeared to him in the air ! God calls Rome " no people;" and " a fool- 
ish nation" — yet Rome is likened to Iron. 

t N. B.— The budding of Pride on the Dispersed— a forerunner of the false 
king; and this character is Satan's Head. A temple will not be sufficient for 
him. He claims the throne above. 



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mighty man glory in his might : Let not the rich man glory 
in his riches." If men of wisdom, strength, and wealth are 
forbid to glory, who may have a right? Every one that 
understandeth and knoweth the Lord, who saith " the days 
come that He will punish all them which are circumcised 
with the uncircumcised." Jeremiah 9. 25. Surely this is the 
time. The Jews are mixed up with the nations in many 
respects; but divide from those who profess to know that 
Christ is the Lord. Of this class I am a weak and unworthy 
member. Weak (not because of my sex) by reason of lone- 
liness in testimony; and unworthy, because I fret myself on 
account of evil doers ; and my complaints pursue those like- 
wise, who seem content with ceasing to do evil, and neglect 
the second part of the lesson. 

" Hear, Israel"— In the summer of 1831, 1 saw a printed 
copy of a letter, addressed to friends in England by yonr 
brother Joseph Wolff, and dated at Mount Zion. In this let- 
ter Mr. Wolff testified his belief that our Lord and Saviour 
Jesus Christ would come in the clouds of heaven, and stand 
upon the Mount of Olives, in A. D. 1847. In a transport of 
joy, that surpassed even all that I felt in knowing forgiveness 
Divine of all my sins, I arrested the progress of said letter to 
oblivion, by publishing two thousand copies, as Millennial 
Tidings; and really thought I was doing present truth a 
service. 

As the Scriptures expressly designate a reign of evil, by 
Lucifer, precedent to the reign of Righteousness by Jesus 
Christ, I was obliged to resign my hope of '47 before it came; 
but I have not doubted the near approach of the Day of 
Christ; nor do I cease to watch the signs of the times. 



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In January and February (1849) I read the Bible entire: 
also the Books called Apocrypha. In March I commenced 
writing an Address to the Jews. I felt myself their debtor 
before the Lord ; for even at Mount Zion I had declared to 
the Jews my belief in Mr. Wolff's testimony; and I warned 
them of the false Captain (whom I call Abaddonapollyon) 
also. 1847 is here, thought I, and the Day of Christ cannot 
come this year, because that Man of sin which is the Son of 
perdition, is not revealed propria personae, at Jerusalem, or 
anywhere else. I knew my sincerity toward the great ob- 
ject, and all its results; and I considered that there was a pos- 
sibility of my doing a little service to the injured cause of 
Christianity, by open literal testimony that interested the 
chosen people ; and my obligation, originating in the Cross 
and glory of Christ, passed on to His own people, by whom 
He was, and still is rejected. If I could not convince the 
Jews, that the Lord God is their Messiah; and that Jesus is 
the Key to open all the Scriptures of the Law and the pro- 
phets, I desired that they might know how I believed Divine 
Revelation, especially the burden of God's controversy with 
His people, and the captivity of His covenant land. 

I felt very comfortable in my mind while I was writing to 
the Jews in March and April, 1847 ; but after I had done, I 
felt no special intimation of duty in respect of publication. I 
am a poor woman; and printing is very expensive. In years 
past I have paid a great deal of money, for printing my 
plain written works. I have taken out seven copy-rights 
in my transient day ; and have lamented that my works 
have not been more useful to mankind. 



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On revisal of my Address to the Jews in 1847, 1 considered 
it as a small drop of the pure oil for the true Tabernacle (the 
person of Christ), and I felt at liberty to present the Roll to a 
distinguished member of the house of Israel at New York, 
(for whom I had cause to entertain grateful respect), request- 
ing him to receive, and peruse my reviews of the Holy 
Scriptures as testimony of Jesus Christ the King of Israel, 
and Saviour of the world. After fifteen months I resumed 
possession of the MSS.; and I hope to effect their publication, 
commending my humble service to the mercy and grace of 
the Lord, praying that my testimony may be sealed at Jeru- 
salem, by my death. 

I shall speak for my motives farther ; not in self-defence, 
but to guard the religion which binds my soul to God, "with 
cords of a man and bands of love and for truth's sake I do 
assure the Jews of my entire conviction that the Blessed 
Redeemer needs not labour or sacrifice of poor worms like 
me in the nineteenth century of His Gospel. "The chariots 
of God" are at His command ; and their wheels of burning 
flame wait for His word. But He is pleased sometimes to 
humble even angels before the Father ; and to go Himself to 
do errands for the Almighties, (EL HOIM) or else to send a 
mortal messenger, or agent for Him to His inheritance upon 
earth. I shall put the Jews in remembrance that Huldah in 
Josiah's reign was employed by God the Spirit, as Isaiah in 
the days of Hezekiah. Deborah conducted an army from 
Kedesh to Mount Tabor, and to the river Kishon, against a 
heathen king, who had nine hundred chariots of iron; (a 
great artillery !) and Jael, the wife of Heber the Kenite was 
appointed to slay the commander of Jabin's host, after the 



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host he led forth from Harosheth of the Gentiles, had each 
fell upon his sword, and there was not a man left. A greater 
exploit is not memorialized in the Scripture ancient battle- 
field. It is far more terrible than Midian's defeat in the val- 
ley of Moreh, at the sound of " The sword of the Lord and 
of Gideon and bears stronger resemblance to the approach- 
ing battle of the Great Day of God Almighties, than the 
defeat of the kings by the waters of Merom, the perishing of 
Heshbon unto Dibon and Nephah, or all the conquests of 
David the king; and who wore the laurel in Deborah's time? 
A woman, whose name signifies a kid, and is mentioned 
only as the avenger upon a chief enemy to God. 

" Blessed above women shall Jael be : 

" Blessed above women shall she be in the tent : 

" She put her hand to the nail, 

ff And her right hand to the workman's hammer, 

" And with the hammer she smote Sisera, 

" She smote off his head — 

"At her feet he bowed, he fell, 

" Where he bowed he fell down dead !" 

" So let all thine enemies perish, Adonai ! 

" But let them that love Him 

f< Be as the sun when he goeth forth in his might." 
" N. B. And the land had rest forty years." 
A woman's Song ! I suppose Deborah had a soul. Indeed 
I know that woman was made in Eden of a living soul, and 
I believe that the specular powers of the rational and spirit- 
ual substance imprisoned in corporeal human bodies, are 
equally distributed to the two sexes. Hannah's Song I 
adduce for a sample of prophetic testimony to the Glory of 



24 ADDRESS TO THE 

Adonai, equal to Habakkuk's prayer and song upon Shig 
gaion ; and the address of Abigail to David the king, at the 
foot of Carmel, I view superior to Judah's eloquent pleading 
with Joseph in Egypt ; for Abigail was inspired to testify of 
Messiah's Day; and likewise of David's eternal Salvation, 
and his Rest with " the Lord, his God." As a believer in 
the Gospel of Christ, I view Hannah, Deborah, Huldah, and 
all the holy women of old time, as spiritual mothers of the 
Glory. They are restored to woman's original honour in the 
Divine Mind ; and by endowment of the spirit of prophecy, 
their feet are replaced in Eden by her Lord God, when He 
shall come to be glorified in His saints, and to be admired in 
all them that believe in that Day. 

But, while the times of the Gentiles glimmer in sight of 
the Jews, like a wasted candle in the socket, and the transfer 
of the Gospel is confessed as Paul said, I suppose a married 
woman is not permitted to teach in public assemblies. In 
this difficulty I am not included ; and I consider that my 
Address to the Jews should not be despised on account of a 
female hand. I do account myself weak but not uncalled ; 
unworthy, but willing to serve. Old age and feebleness 
must not prevent my endeavours to vindicate the truth. 

The Gospel is truth. It is the power of God unto Salva- 
tion to every one that believeth. To the Jew first, and also 
to the Gentile. 

In all my Address to the Jews in 1847, 1 treated them with 
high respect ; but that respect I consider not personal, but to 
their election as of God. During the lapse of about twelve 
or thirteen solar months, events have taken place, and cir- 
cumstances have occurred, which occasion diligent search in 



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me, as to the feelings of my heart, and a strict review of my 
past conduct toward the Jews. Honesty., candour and charity, 
unite their influence, against morbid sensibility, and un- 
authorized sympathy, which disturb and grieve the spirit of 
truth, by division from faithful testimony. If I have ever 
been guilty of this indulgence, I pray to be convinced, fully 
convinced, deeply repentant, thoroughly reformed, more 
purely taught, and more completely disciplined, as well as 
graciously and divinely pardoned, through Jesus Christ, our 
Lord. 

As far as I have had, and to this moment retain, an under- 
standing of the main prepossessions and sympathies relative 
to the children of Israel, the exclusive argument for respect, 
veneration and love, rests on their original election of God, 
to be unto Him " a kingdom of priests, and a holy nation." 
This intention of the everlasting God, the God of Abraham, 
Isaac, and Israel, is fully revealed in His holy word ; and my 
soul is instructed to adore the Purity of this election ; for its 
Root* is holy, and Seth represents the Appointed Seed, while 
Noah is preserved in all his generations, to establish the 
earth, that God may renew His blessing on the Sabbath 
Day. I consider this election is unto holiness. Who can 
oppose me in this ? Look at the declaration of God — "Thou 
art a holy nation unto the Lord, thy God." A holy God 
will have a holy family; and the descendants of Abraham, 
Isaac and Israel, have no alliance with God but in holiness. 
Yet, they outwardly stand in national election, superior to 
all other people, having ADONAI for their God, whom they 

* Sec Genesis, 3d chapter and 15th verse. 
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26 ADDRESS TO THE 

know not now, but they shall know, and worship Him in 
the beauties of holiness. 

I must say to the Jews, that the election of their King was 
secured, and reported by the Lord God in the garden of 
Eden, after Adam by disobedience lost the Headship and 
lordship over creation; and I consider that His Divinity is 
confessed by Noah, in whose prophecy is the corner-stone of 
election unto Glory that shall never end. Of course, my 
attachment to God's elect nation, centres in the Great Bruiser 
of the old Serpent's Head. Blessed be the Lord God of 
Shem; for He is the Bruiser of Satan's Head, in His King- 
ship over the Jews, when He cometh to save Zion. 

While I consent to Paul's words, " beloved for the fathers' 
sakes," my love for the children of Israel flows in a deeper 
channel, even in the Cross of Christ, and to Him I resign the 
other love, knowing that His Love to the fathers is ever- 
lasting, praises to His sovereign Grace! 

By Christ crucified, the Jews are dead to God. By Christ* 
risen from the tomb, the Jews are quickened to Hope on, yet 
they know not who girds them. By the ascension of Christ 
into the heavens, and His sitting on the right hand of the 
Father, the Dispersed of Judah have a Representative, not as 
they now are upon earth, but in their Restoration to God, 
when the beauty of the Lord shall be on them. Must I love 
the Jews in their present state? Yes. I must love them 
(personally) as enemies: and (relatively) as the brethren of 
my Lord. Beside these two opposites, the one inspiring an 
affection of pity, and the other an affection of ardent desire, 

* On the resurrection of Christ from the dead, depended the continuation of 
the world, 



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I feel a concern for the Jews that mourn for Zion; and yet 
understand not the occasion of her widowhood. I fear these 
mourners are few in number at this day. God knoweth. 
There is doubtless the germ of an elect remnant however; 
and it is in the Lord's vineyard, so I am called to watch the 
invasions of a wild Boar out of the forest, that seeks to hurt 
it with his claws. I must bear open, heartfelt testimony to 
all the Jews that may see this Book, on the subject of their 
reception of apostates from Christianity into their congregation 
and their confidence. I shall not permit my sex, my weak- 
ness, my insignificance, or any other fleshly plea, to hinder 
faithful dealing with you. 

It is indeed a new thing to me to put my Pen to paper, to 
harangue you with remonstrance and rebuke, and then to 
publish the same in sight of the world. It is painful as strange 
for me to press upon your gaze the utter inability of your 
state, (whether sojourning at Jerusalem, or dispersed to the 
four quarters of the globe,) for acts of ecclesiastical govern- 
ment, in the order of the Law given by Moses. From the 
year A. D. 70 to 1849, you have been excluded from the seat 
of God's worship; and yet you profess to hold communion 
with Him, without a sacrifice, or ONE Mediator.* 

I pray you to consider, and to imitate the conduct of your 
righteous progenitors on their return from Babylon, where 
they had been bondmen for seventy years. Without par- 
tiality they examined the register of the priesthood; and 
names not inserted according to the reckoning by genealogy, 
were as polluted, and put from the priesthood. Neither were 



* Instead of Christ, it seems the Talmud reports six angels. 



28 ADDRESS TO THE 

they to eat of the holy things "till there stood up a Priest 
with Urim and with Thummim." If seventy years captivity 
in Babylon, occasioned such uncertainty to the annals of your 
original priesthood, what must be the effect of a dispersion to 
the ends of the earth, and to the four winds of heaven, for the 
long space of seventeen hundred and seventy-nine years? 

My lords the Jews, it is a fact that the administration of the 
laws of the Sanctuary is restricted to Mount Moriah; for so 
the Lord declared to Solomon, after the dedication of that 
beautiful edifice, that was hallowed by the cloud of the Lord, 
and was called by His Name, because He there recorded it 
forever. For the honour of His Name, He commanded the 
house to be built up again; but not by a descendant of Solo- 
mon. In the second temple there was exhibited perfect 
order according to the Mosaic economy, the priests in their 
divisions, and the Levites in their courses for the service of 
God, as it is written in the Book of Moses. I say according 
to the Law; and so it was; but not in the order of Aaron's 
house; for the Levites were not mentioned. The organization 
of a form called the service of God, rested with Aaron and 
his sons, until the Camp was fully prepared; and then the 
Kingdom is represented by the presentation of the tribe of 
Levi, to keep the charge of the whole congregation, and to 
do the service of the tabernacle. 

Ezra was an eminent servant of the true God in his time ; 
and it is evident his views were directed in the course of the 
Star of Bethlehem; and his advices respecting the restoration 
of God's worship, influenced reformation that is typical of the 
Millennium. — See Malachi 3. 3, 4. Alas! how soon was 
Ezra's work to vanish away, and Nehemiah's to fail; and 



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what good thing entrusted to men, has not failed in their 
hands? 

Now, my lords the Jews, I view you as lying in the ruin 
that Christ found your ancestors at Jerusalem, at Nazareth, 
Capernaum, &c., with the addition of His Anathema, as 
recorded in His farewell sermon, delivered in your second 
House, that is left desolate* according to His word. I ask in 
what respect are you competent to judge in matters of con- 
science, such as making a Christian of the Gentile race, a good 
religious Jew? How did you get the mind of the Lord about 
him? Was it by his solemn abjuration of the Holy Name, 
Jesus? 

I do beseech and entreat of you to consider the cause of 
this Address; and to reflect on the melancholy consequences, 
resulting from your indulgence toward my bewildered fellow 
countrymen; and while there can be no reparation made for 
the loss of a soul, please to confess to him, that you are as 
destitute of power to regenerate him, as the King of Israel to 
cure Naaman's leprosy. 

I can assure you, that since the return of this notable 
Apostate to his native city, I have been more highly favoured 
with light upon the subject of Israel's restoration, than through 
all former years of studying the words of God. Not that my 
belief in the sacred Gospel has ever been subjected to any 
contingency; for it pleased the Father Above to plant in my 
soul that supernal, soul-satisfying declaration of Christ to 
Nicodemus, recorded John 3. 16, while I was a babe in 
religious matters; and my Refuge is in God. The human 

* Or given up to the Desolator ; now to Mahomet's representative, and anon 
to the personal Anti-Christ. 



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Nature of Christ is not my Salvation. I know no Saviour 
but God. The manifestation of God in the flesh was 
necessary for Divine purposes in man's redemption. By the 
shedding of His precious Blood, Christ procured my pardon. 
God accepted so much that was human, and all the rest was 
Divine. Doctrine, life, yea, and even death, was more than 
human; for Jesus laid down a Life that Jews, Romans, and 
the devil could not assail. The thorns, the nails, the Spear, 
were suffered to exantlate the life of the holy flesh; but His 
Spirit He resigned to God; and none but Christ can say, 
" Death ! I will be thy plague, 
" Grave ! I will be thy destruction !" 

My soul adores the God of Glory for the manifestation and 
I can say, u Blessed be He that came in the Name of the 
Lord. How careful was the lowly Jesus to reject the wor- 
ship of His person. To the young ruler prostrate at His 
sinless feet, He said, "Whycallest thou me good? there is 
none good but One, that is God." 

The Divine right to choose, order, and carry out a plan to 
redeem His creation, is acknowledged by angels, good and 
bad. The former shouted Glory to God in the highest, the 
latter confessed « I know thee, who thou art, the Holy One 
of God." Neither Gabriel or Satan dared to do what man 
has done, in rejecting Christ; but the latter glories in his 
career of temptation, by which millions of souls are involved 
in his misery. 

I do not recognize one sentence in the New Testament, 
that expresses duty, obligation or safety in man-worship, or 
man-trust; and for a single soul, I declare, that my repose is 
in Him who gave His flesh for the life of the world; and my 



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faith in His blood, is rooted in God's acceptance of His per- 
son afterward; for Christ was raised from the dead by the 
glory of the Father; and the Glory of the Father is His 
Image, and His Image is, was, and shall be the Father of 
the everlasting Age, and the Father of Christ received Him 
as one returned from the spoil, wearing human nature in 
testimony that restitution to God hath a sure foundation in 
the obedience of the second Man, Jesus Christ the Lord; 
and after declaring all this, I solemnly affirm to the Jews, 
that I trust only in God, I worship no other God save the 
God of Israel; and believe He is their Saviour, Redeemer and 
King. 

I believe that man's creation in the image of God, is allied 
to the mystery of godliness which concerns Redemption. In 
the fall, and by the fall, the image was marred outwardly, 
and the internal was instantly lost! 0! the comparison, 
how awful! for a momentary gratification, must spotless 
Innocence agonize three dreadful hours in sufferings un- 
known! Again, were the sorrows of those three hours an 
equivalent for sins reckoned on threescore years and ten? 
Yes. Satan's work in Eden was a short work at first; but 
since Adam's fail, Satan's work has been lengthened, so that 
childhood, youth, manhood, and hoary age, have been devoted 
to the serpent's slanders and blasphemy against the plan of 
Redemption by the Lord God. On the other hand, the 
sufferings of the Cross, are proved by the resurrection of 
Christ from the dead, sufficient to gain a pardon for the 
whole world; but there are terms fixed for the obtaining of a 
pardon; and if a sinner of a century repents and believes, he 
is forgiven, he is saved from despair; and God hath the praise, 



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for worthy is the Lamb ! thanks be unto God for His unspeak- 
able gift! Glory to God! Alleluia! 

I beg the Jews will understand my mean- 
ing, when I assure them, that the two first words of the holy 
Ten that were written by the finger of God on two tables of 
stone, settle my soul at one point of faith in God, by which 
my little bark is safely steered on this life's turbulent sea; 
and the point is this, God's decree " Let us make man in our 
image, after our likeness" — I discern a partnership. It is all 
Divine — it is pure Existence! It is God — God the Lord 
God! Now the commandments hold me to this point, "Let 
us;" and I hear but one voice, "And God said." I am 
happy in this simplicity and uncompounded sincerity toward 
the written words of God; and I confess that faith in Christ 
is the dawn of my sight in God. 1 am glad to be saved in 
the way God has appointed; and glory in mysteries because 
they are God's, even the mystery of His long-suffering to 
fallen angels, although to my weak sense it is awful indeed; 
but I am sure their judgment is appointed by Him who hath 
the Key of David; and by faith I see Him in the heaven- 
lies, with the keys of Death and Hell in His golden Zone. 
Alleluia to God and the Lamb ! ! ! 

I believe the Day draweth very nigh when the prophetic 
chorus of the Heavenly host shall be realized, and fully ac- 
complished, by the second birth of Creation's Lord into this 
terrestrial world; and this glorious event takes place in an- 
swer to prayer, the prayer of a remnant of Judah and his 
companions.* For that elect remnant I hope 1 am serving in 



* The outward assembly. The Lord knoweth His own sheep among them. 



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this testimony, which is an Address to all Jews who may 
look upon it. Weakness clips the wings of desire to honour 
Him who is coming out of Heaven to punish evil doers, and 
give His people rest. My spirit is ready to faint because of 
the impuissance that hinders the display of things that must 
be credited, or the soul be lost; but I dare not stop. I will 
look to Him who " never breaks the bruised Reed, nor scorns 
the meanest name." Two extremes I mean to avoid, unqua- 
lified severity and inconscionable obsequiousness. Flatteries 
do no good. I refer them to apostate spirits. 

3fc ^ 3j£ 

There are two subjects of consequence to Jews and Christ- 
ians, that have hitherto engrossed more of my thoughts than 
either of the two classes of Theists are aware, as occasions 
of manifestating latent views or opinions have not been so 
great as to sound an alarm in my soul for the Remnant, till 
very recently, especially the one I must introduce opposite 
this period. 

1. The Law given by Moses does not warrant the Jews 
to make proselytes on any wise. Indeed, it is evidently sacri- 
lege, which is a mortal sin. Farther than this, the Jews have 
no right to consider an alien from their polity a candidate 
for Judaism, even by his own solicitation. For instance, by 
God's decision he is excluded from a participation of the feast 
of the Passover. 

"And the Lord said unto Moses and Aaron, This is the 
ordinance of the Passover : There shall no stranger eat 
thereof." 

"A foreigner and an hired servant shall not eat thereof." 
" But every man's servant that is bought for money, when 
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34 ADDRESS TO THE 

thou hast circumcised him shall eat thereof." — Exodus 12. 
43, 45. 

See also a statute in the priest's Law Book. 

" They shall keep mine Ordinance, lest they bear sin for it, 
and die if they profane it. I, the Lord, do sanctify them." 

" There shall no stranger eat of the holy thing: a sojourner 
of the priest's, or a hired servant shall not eat of the holy 
thing." 

" But if the priest buy any soul with his money, he shall 
eat of it, and he that is born in his house ; they shall eat of 
his meat." 

" If the priest's daughter be married to a stranger, she may 
not eat of an offering of the holy things." — Lev. 22. 9 — 12. 

The Jews in their present state, I consider inadequate to 
the labour of instructing a proselyte to their religion, since 
the Talmud has supplanted its original tenets so far, that 
"Thus saith the Lord unto Moses," is almost obsolete in the 
schools of their Rabbis. 

Be their ability however what it may, the Law by which 
they must be judged, does prohibit the distribution thereof to 
strangers. 

Now concerning the Passover. It was instituted by the 
God of Israel, for commemoration of His grace in their deliv- 
erance from the iron furnace, even out of Egypt, to be to 
Him a people for inheritance. I ask, is it not a very strange 
sight to behold, in the middle of the nineteenth century of the 
Gospel Era, a man fifty years old, who has been a de- 
claimer for Christianity about half that time, sitting in the 
presence of the Jews as one of the redeemed from Egypt, on 
the profession that he has found by them the only way to 



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Heaven ? and to behold him standing in their ranks to eat 
the Passover, thus denying the Prototype, even the Lord 
Jesus Christ, the Lamb of God that taketh away the sin of 
the world ? 

Awful ! ! ! ! — It is too distressing to dwell upon. Woful 
triumph for the enemies of Christianity ! Ignoble victory of 
Pharisaical malice against the Cross of Christ ! 

****** 

It is the genius of the Gospel to urge all mankind to 

come to the feet of Jesus, and accept Salvation as offered in 
His Blessed Name. 

The Commission to preach the Gospel was delivered to 
Jewish Apostles. " Go teach all nations, beginning at Jeru- 
salem," was the command of Christ risen, just as He was 
about to ascend into Heaven. 

— 1 am now entering on the other subject of many thoughts 
— a subject that involves very solemn consequences to Jews 
and Christians. Since A. D. 33, Christianity has failed in the 
Levant, and likewise for three years and a half in France. 

Since A. D. 70, Jerusalem, that is elect for the place of Im- 
manuel's throne, and the place of the soles of His feet, has 
been a mirror to reflect the image of Apostacy from age to 
age. 

In the nineteenth century, the eyes of all nations are to- 
ward Jerusalem, and the conversion of her children to the 
Christian faith, has become a subject of interest in Protestant 
Christian communities on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean. 
Members of the dispersed of Judah, have retreated from the 
synagogues of their people, and have joined the Christian 
church, some by name of Episcopal, others Baptist, Metho- 



36 ADDRESS TO THE 

dist, Presbyterian, Dutch Reformed, and many Roman Ca- 
tholics. 

Considering the sacred authority of apostolic messengers of 
Christ, as durable as the present world, is not the calling of 
the Gentiles by Peter (unto whom Christ confided the keys 
of the Kingdom of Heaven), and the denouncement of the 
Jews by Paul (who was sent by Christ to the Heathen) de- 
monstrable of a departure of the Spirit of truth from the tents 
of Isaac, during the times of the Gentiles ? I think so ; and 
all my testimony to the Jews, is intended to benefit the Rem- 
nant elected to receive the Spirit of grace and of supplication, 
in the dreadful time approaching, or to honour the Name 
they reject in their sight and before the world. 

I do not assert, nor do I even suppose it impossible, for a 
Jew to believe in Christ crucified, risen, ascended, and to 
return in Glory to reign upon Mount Zion; but I cannot find 
a consent of my judgment upon the things of Christ, to the 
entrance of a son of the circumcision into the Gospel fold, ex- 
cept by the door, which is the Lord of the Sabbath Day, as 
well as the Christ of God. I cannot discover in the Scrip- 
tures of the prophets, any traces of the work of the Spirit 
aside from the Sign of the everlasting covenant ; and " what 
saith the scripture," is a question of primary moment, espe- 
cially to that people unto whom Christ first came, as unto 
His own, by whom He was rejected, insulted, derided, and 
slain. 

In my humble opinion, a Jewish convert should hallow the 
Sabbath Day, keeping fast hold of the Master's plain doc- 
trine, « He that seeketh to save his life shall lose it." Showers 
of stones would be showers of blessings to his soul, while he 



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might assure his brethren according to the flesh, that he fol- 
lows the true Pattern, Jesus Christ, whose holy person rested 
in Joseph's tomb ! 

"3fr 

Much is said at the present concerning the emancipation 
of the chosen people. It seems that the cords which bind 
Zion are expected to dissolve by reason of age ; and her 
wounds are to be healed in the fashionable way of this Age. 
Alas ! the depth of her wounds is not understood by the wise 
and prudent; nor the precise cause of her captivity known to 
the many physicians. The original hurt is not considered 
dangerous, although it was never closed, nor mollified with 
ointment. She refused the remedy ; and will persist in the 
rejection until the Serpent's Head is bruised even on her 
bosom. What is now styled emancipation, is but a rivet 
upon her chains, that increase Satan's advantage, and ripens 
his plan of destroying a majority of her children. 

Where are the mourners for Zion now ? Who considers 
her case grievous? I answer, the mourners are at Jesus' 
tomb. It is their location, until he appears in His Glory. 
Those that consider her case grievous are the true believers 
in the Lord God, that have sympathy with him from Eve to 
Abel, from Abel to Joseph, from thence to Calvary; and 
these hold the sword of the Spirit, watching unto prayer. 
Such will not listen to the blandishments of Zion's pretend- 
ing friends, who know not the judgment of the Lord. 

True mourners for Zion cherish the Spirit of Christ, whose 
tears embalmed the city of His joy; and His prayers move 
the pillars of Heaven to secure His hill, for the decree is im- 
mutable, that His city shall be built upon her own heap ; and 



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she shall be called by His Name. Now is the time to mourn 
for Zion, while the clouds are gathering only for darkness, 
having in them no rain of righteousness ; but strong winds 
that undulate upon mad fancies of pride's children, to encou- 
rage their strife against the truth of God, who will surely 
send the judgment of Strong Delusion, that they shall believe 
a Lie ! There is a Remnant elected for this mourning. Some 
are in your synagogues; and some are among Christians. 
The Lord knoweth them; and He respects their sorrows. 
They shall rejoice when the Lord rejoiceth ; and be glad in 
His day of gladness for His people. Blessed be His holy 
Name. 

At this crisis, when the Devil and his angels are compelled 
to enter the lists against the Holy in Heaven, that he may be 
cast into the earth for his destruction, the mourners for Zion 
lament over her first fall, as the birthday of sin who is the 
parent of death and hell. In this their souls have sympathy 
with Him who planted Eden for His Sanctuary, and placed 
man (i. e. the noble) therein, as a tenant, and a servant of 
God. Man was to prove, by obedience, that Creation was 
good for the hallowed Rest of the Lord God ; and Eve was 
made in the garden of Delights, to represent an angel in cor- 
poreal form ; for her material was a living soul ; but Adam's 
original was dust of the ground. Mourners for Zion, now 
pour your tears at the feet of the Lord God, let not your 
eyes cease, while Satan's malice is re-collected as the root of 
gall, which can be extracted only by the sufferings of Christ. 
" Woe be to those who laugh now ; for they shall mourn and 
weep," when God is triumphant in the person of Jesus, as 
the Restorer of Eve to her Eden, and her God. 



DISPERSED OF JUDAH. 39 

The mourners for Zion will hear the thunder-clap of ven- 
geance, that mangles the Head of Zion's primal foe, with 
solemn awe of ImmanuePs Power, and sacred joy to His vic- 
tory ; and looking up behold the Glory of the Cross, in His 
coming to reign upon earth, as First and Last of the Counsels 
of God, for Peace and Rest, for His Praise forever. Amen. 

I can boldly assert to the Jews, that the Glory* of the 
Cross is Zion's healing ; and the Cross itself is her proper 
object of praise ; and great is the mystery of redemption by 
Shame of Innocence, and justification of the guilty, by curse 
on the Blessed, that the vile may be blest ! It is God's plan, 
and that is sufficient for me. Standing upon this Rock, my 
soul defies the malice of Satan, and his vain boast in man, 
and by man, that God's counsel is misrepresented by Chris- 
tianity. The Holy Scriptures are a bright halo around the 
cross and tomb of Jesus. The Holy prophecies are a lamp 
carried by the Comforter to guide the steps of the penitent to 
Bethlehem, Nazareth, Taber, Bethany, Gethsemane, Calvary 
and Olivet. 

I am not ashamed of the manger. I am not ashamed of 
Calvary. I am ashamed of my poor meagre attempts to 
honour the glorious Gospel ; and am sometimes so discour- 
aged at my failures, that I am ready to resign my pen, and 
say, «I cannot do this work. It is too great for me. I am a 

sinful worm. I am dust and ashes. But I dare not halt. 

Gideon in a dream appeared as a cake of barley bread ; and 
perhaps I, in sight of my dear Saviour, am gathering up a 



* Divine Love ! God is Love ! 



Love is of God ! 



40 . ADDRESS TO THE 

few small crumbs for His chosen Remnant. I must not give 
up. 

Too successful has the wily serpent wrought his baneful 
work of unbelief, which generates wrath against that only, 
and that sovereign remedy for healing the wound caused by 
his deadly sting. To this, every age have afforded proof 
that fallen man is more willing to resist God, than to resist 
Satan. This is . the result of Eve's believing the Serpent's 
lies ; for by her Adam fell. Adam was not deceived. He 
was proved by his wife. What has man to glory in, save in 
the Cross of Christ? Let us inquire of the God of Israel, if 
Noah, Job, and Daniel can deliver us from Satan's tempta- 
tions and the wrath to come. The Holy Bible contains the 
Oracles of Truth ; and by them we should seek to learn 
doctrine. In the Book of Genesis there is cast up a highway 
of knowledge, which faith in God will turn to the account of 
full redemption ; and we have the sign before us in a day of 
rain, as a token of the marvellous condescension of God, to 
the Enosh state of man, which state is illustrated by the 
fickleness of Israel's children in the wilderness, the nice and 
peculiar care of their God in the Book of Leviticus, to teach 
them the necessity of one sin offering, once for all, that a 
holy camp may be fixed in Eden, which is prefigured in the 
Book of Numbers; and Deuteronomy reviews the whole of 
the ground of types and shadows that concern Israel's Glory, 
and redemption of the promised Land. 

The codes of original prophecy commanded by the mouth 
of God to holy men, and written by them in the days of 
Judah's kings, or in the time of her first captivity in a strange 
land, are as a cabinet of jewels, the property of God in His 



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Son Jesus Christ the Lord, that true believers in God may 
inspect, and- admire in their place, which is the Secret of 
God, or the mystery of His Anointed. 

True believers in God, are content to view His jewels in, 
and upon, and for Christ, the Redeemer of Israel, and their 
King. They are in grace, by the gift of faith, and like 
Abraham rejoice in the rise of the Sun of Righteousness 
upon the cloudless sky of the bridal Day of Zion. They 
learn to speak Heaven's pure language, 

" God is Love, — " 

" Love is of God ;" 
and these sacred aphorisms of the Spirit of Christ, are written 
upon door-posts of the conscience, as guards against Satan's 
attempts to seduce them ; and upon the heart to quicken the 
operation of faith, and ripen the virtues of fortitude, submis- 
sion and patience in their souls; for the calling of true be- 
lievers in God is unto purity and glory. How precious is 
their memorial ! They love because they were first loved. 

Separate from Christ there is no rule for studying the 
prophecies ; of course darkness is on the face of the deep, 
and human reason is resolved into skepticism, that does des- 
pite to the Spirit of grace. Certainly Christ is the Land-mark 
which the fathers, and the prophets, the seers, and the holy 
singers, yea, and every righteous king, have set in God's 
inheritance among men. In every section of the Scripture of 
truth I can so realize that God's property in Jacob is dis- 
tinguished only by Christ, that the removal of Him effaces 
the Divine claim, and resumption is thus rendered impossible. 
What is the consequence ? ! that the Jews would consider. 

The sum or conclusion is, that Satan grasps creation in his 
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cormorant claws, and in the person of a temporal Prince 
ascends the mount of the congregation that reject the true 
King. Awful result of Judah's sin ! 

There is a goodly proportion of the holy prophecies, that 
pour out the oil of themselves into the humble believer's cup, 
so that he can divide the spoil with those who weary the 
flesh, by continuous hard study of dark parables and deep 
prophetic lore. I adduce for instance the prophecy of Micah 
concerning the birth of Messiah and His birth-place. Also 
the blessed words of Zechariah recorded in chapter ninth 
and verse ninth of his visions; also the seventy-third and 
eighty-ninth Psalms. It is best, however, to read all, and 
trust in the Lord for aid of His Spirit to help our search after 
His truth. But, let this one thing be remembered, that only 
while we hold Jesus, as the Key of Knowledge, and hold 
Him by the Hem of His garment, in faith's steady hand, can 
we discern God's purposes and ways, and holy decrees, 
according to " Thus saith the Lord, and thus it is written." 
Now I will instance for the Jews the forty-sixth chapter of 
Isaiah. See particularly the tenth verse, " Declaring the end 
from the beginning."* "And from ancient times the things 
not yet done, saying, my counsel shall stand, and I will do 
all my pleasure." 

Now what can we do with this chapter, aside from the 
• counsel of God, the Lord God, which He opened in Eden at 
the beginning of evil to His creation; and how can we for- 
bear the confession that the Seed of the woman is Satan's 



* 1. "Let us make man in our image, after our likeness." 2. Gen. 3. 14; 
and note 14 He shall bruise thy head ; and thou shalt bruise His heel." 



DISPERSED OF JUDAH. 43 

Bruiser? If we concede to this, where is the argument 
against the divinity of His origin? Not in the Bible sure; 
for it is written " God is the Judge;" and by Moses the Lord 
saith « To me belongeth vengeance and recompense." — « See 
now, that I am He" — even Satan's Bruiser. 

I will propose the seventy-sixth Psalm as a prophecy of 
the Glory of Christ. 

" In Judah is God known. 
" His Name is great in Israel. 
" In Salem also is His tabernacle, 
" And His dwelling place in Zion." 

The whole of Immanuel's Land ; and the two divisions of His 
people. 

See v. 3. " There brake He the arrows of the bow, the 
shield, and the sword, and the battle." This is synonymous 
with expulsion of the unclean spirit from His land; or the 
end of wars. 

In the fourth verse, He that breaks the arrows, the shield, 
the sword, and the battle, is addressed as the Name more 
glorious and excellent than the mountains of prey. 

"Mountains of prey!" These I view as addressed in the 
singular number by the angel that talked with Zechariah. 
See fourth chapter; and by Asaph I understand the plural 
also. Doubtless Nebuchadnezzar's image, that is to be 
smitten on the feet by the Stone cut out of the mountain 
without hands, is here recognized, and the feet and toes 
represent abominable armies; but beside them, it seems that 
all nations are to be gathered against Jerusalem to battle; 
and the Lord in that Day descends to standi upon the mount 



44 ADDRESS TO THE 

of Olives; and will fight for Mount Zion, Moriah, and His 
land. 

Now I ask the Jews, if their Messiah is the Son of David? 
Why did David call Him Lord? Is the promised Shiloh 
"a man of war?" Moses sang, "The Lord is a man of 
war, the Lord is His Name." 

David sang to Messiah " Lord, our Lord, how excellent 
is thy Name in all the earth." What is the peculiar Glory 
of Messiah's Name? Is it not Salvation? 

The third verse of the seventy-sixth Psalm represents the 
Shiloh, that arises to judgment to save His remnant, and 
He will put an end to war, i. e. He decrees the sword to 
become a ploughshare, and commands wars to cease to the 
ends of the earth. 

The interest, as well as the principal of the 76th Psalm is 
entirely devoted to the children of Israel, and their Messiah. 
It is one of the gems of prophecy that shine not in the times 
of the Gentiles; but in the Cabinet I mentioned before. 
Their lustre is in the face of Jestjs Christ, to my faith; and 
the prophecy is on sacred file among God's treasures, until 
the times of restitution. It is worthy of note that this short 
Psalm is a summary prophecy of the great and dreadful 
Day of the Lord; and His Glory on David's throne, also, 
that alike with the whole body of prophecy, the theatre of 
action is Jerusalem and the Holy Land. How can it be 
otherwise, seeing that it is the amount of the Lord's estate 
in the covenant of grace to His friend, the noble Chaldean 
who offered up his only Son to the Father of our Lord and 
Saviour, Jesus Christ? And it is observable also, that while 
Israel's three distinguished leaders never set a foot upon 



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45 



holy ground, Christ never walked upon any other. Moses, 
Aaron, and Miriam were born in Egypt. Christ was born 
in Bethlehem. Miriam died in a city, and Aaron upon a 
mountain of Esau; and neither of them were allowed a 
glance at the promised Land. Moses beheld the glorious 
Holy Mountain from an eminent height of the land of 
Moab, and there he died, and God took his body some- 
where, Israel cannot say where. Christ walked through 
this land, a meek and lowly Servant of the circumcision, 
and the obedient Son of God. He died the ignominious 
death of the cross without the gates of Jerusalem; and nigh 
to the city there was a garden; and in that garden there 
was a tomb — there they buried Jesus ! The precious 
Lamb "from earth's foundation slain," was not deserted, 
by faithful woman. The sealed sepulchre contained her 
Lord. Woman was elected to meet holy angels at her 
Saviour's tomb. To man they spoke not of Jesus. 
Woman was elected to report the angel's words to the 
apostles, " He is risen ;" and woman is elected to the first 
sight of human eyes, of Christ in His personal resurrection 
from the dead. Yea, and woman is elected to report His 
ascension, as doctrine grounded upon prophecy to be 
accomplished in her day. 

Happy herald of His Glory, 
Angels bid thee not to fear, 
Quick she ran to tell the story 
Christ is risen, He is not here. 
Alas! her labour was in vain, 
And she sought the tomb again. 
By the Rock in mute despair, 
Mary stood at last alone, 



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ADDRESS TO THE 



Her only grief, her only care, 
Is, whither is my Saviour borne? 
Then His voice she hears again, 
Mary, O! the sacred name, 
Owned by Christ the Lord of all 
As first upon His Name to call, 
When He the bands of death had broke, 
And to this humble mourner spoke. 

****** 

Eighteen hundred and sixteen years have witnessed to 
the grace of God, according to the Gospel of His dear Son, 
that He is not willing that any should perish in their sins; 
but now, the corruption of its doctrines, and variations 
from its ordinances, intimate a necessity for reckoning with 
the present generation of Christians, because there are among 
them certain men, (and women too,) that feel able to build 
a tower that shall reach to heaven, and be accepted of God. 
The constitution of the Gospel of the Kingdom has been 
assailed by friends and foes, by men and devils. Falsities 
have obscured the meaning of its Standard, so that instead 
of mercy for sinners, it would seem to favour sin. Pride, 
ostentation, and worldliness have essayed to reign over the 
Cross, under mask of belief in its power to save; and to 
mammon it has been compelled to yield its closest tenet, the 
denial of righteous, as of sinful self. 

But — the Constitution is safe. It was not founded upon 
a revolution of the Law, nor was it designed to annul the 
Law, or to dishonour the Law; but to magnify the Law. 
God is the Constituent of the Gospel; and He deputed His 
Son to plant its Grace in humiliation, by sending Him to 
earth that should open at His Word, and bring forth 



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47 



Salvation. The design of the Gospel was certainly- 
accomplished by the obedience of Christ, and He is God's 
Amen to its praise forever. The dispensation of the Gos- 
pel, and the administration of its ordinances, does not alter 
the constitution of the Gospel. I pray the Jews to consider 
this matter, and not to suppose that the failure of a conduit 
for conveyance of water changes the quality or properties 
of the water. 

I shall proceed to mention the precious Books of the New 
Covenant, as they are printed in English letter, since the 
Protestant Reformation. Making allowance for changes of 
language, and other disadvantages, I assert to the Jews, that 
the doctrine of Christ is perfectly conformed to the truth of 
the Law; and His Life a transcript of its excellence. I 
believe that God has protected the precepts, and the declara- 
tions of Jesus Christ, from Satan's malice. 

A few years gone by, I happened to take up a Book that 
contained sundry objections of the Jews against Christianity. 
As usual the opposition rested on the New Testament; and 
the different and various Readings were adduced to prove 
its falsity. The writer quoted to Mills, Whitby, and Gre- 
gory, to promote his own opinions, that no Book had ever 
sustained as great, and such a number of alterations as the, 
New Testament. I took some notes at the time, and the 
same now lie before me on the table. 

I feel prepared to resist any assertion that opposes the 
consistency, the propriety, and goodness of every tenet now 
extant in the four Gospels, as issued from the mouth of 
Jesus Christ our Lord. They are of perfection the sum; 
and of truth the substance, accordant with the command- 



48 



ADDRESS TO THE 



ments to Israel "Be ye holy," and "serve the Lord with a 
perfect heart:" "obey my voice:" "seek me, and ye shall 
live," &c. There is not one discrepant position visible to faith, 
or perceptible to a humble conscience, in all the declarations 
of Christ relating to God's concerns with Israel; nor the very 
least show of interference with the Law; but all traditions 
of men, He condemned as transgressions against God. 

Every Book in the Bible has a distinct character. For 
instance the Book of Genesis holds out a constitution of 
covenants and promises, while the Book of Joshua presents 
their establishment, and effect. In Lamentations we realize 
the existence of a Remnant that mourn for the dread 
apostacy; but Isaiah exhibits the national glory. It is 
necessary to reflect on the system of a Book, as to examine 
the constitution of a government; and with precision equal 
to consequences, our minds should ponder sacred truth. 
If there is an Especial to head an axiom for the devout 
Theist to charge upon his conscience relative to Divine 
Revelation, I should say six words of Christ establish it. 

" He that believeth shall be saved ;" and if this proposition 
is oppressed by Satan's device, let seven words be added, and 
then make a choice. 

" He that believeth not, shall be damned." Now, instead 
of quarrelling with the above declarations, on account of 
their origin, or condemning me for exalting the Amen, please 
accompany me to the ever verdant fields of original pro- 
phecy, and hear the Lord's decision upon David's house 
concerning the child sign of a perpetual covenant. Eleven 
words : 



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" If ye will not believe — 
" Surely ye shall not be established." 
The Gospel was preached to Ahaz, as God's plan of sanctify- 
ing David's house, and the Lord revealed Himself to Ahaz 
as that Child, which is God with man ; and by Isaiah de- 
clared, that faith in that Birth of Holinesses, must precede, 
and accompany the settlement of Zion's wars, the establish- 
ment of David's throne, and the return of the lost Israel to 
God. No marvel that Christ affixed to the Apostolic com- 
mission to publish His Gospel, the two points of man's 
embrace of Heaven, or of hell ! 

It is a simple and vulgar proverb, 66 every one counts up." 
Yes ; and the ocean is made of drop by drop. Individuality 
is reserved to Deity. Mortals and angels are visible to Him 
at one glance ; and yet He judges them separately. A com- 
pany on the right hand hears the King say, "Come ye 
Blessed ;" and each heart is sensible of its joy : another set 
hears the Judge proclaim to them, " Depart ye cursed and 
every separate heart knows its own bitterness, while many 
ears as one, tremble at the command which ushers them into 
the abyss of everlasting woe ! 

The tears of the Blessed fell upon Olivet's brow, as He 
exclaimed " that thou hadst known at least in this thy day, 
the things that belong to thy peace !" And it is Jerusalem 
He addressed, by which is intended "Judah and his com- 
panions," while the judgment of God sealed upon them His 
words by Isaiah, recorded in the third chapter, and at the 
eighth verse. 

"Jerusalem is ruined ; 

" And Judah is fallen ; 

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"Because their tongue* and theirt doings are against 
Adonai, 

"To provoke thet eyes of His§ Glory. 5 ' 

The Jews will please to recollect that Achan's sin was 
imputed to Israel by the Lord God, (see Joshua 8. 11), who 
ordered Joshua to search the camp, and destroy the accursed 
thing, or He (Adonai) would "be with them no more." 

" ! that thou hadst known/' &c. The exclamation rings 
in the air, sounds over every dwelling, is intended for every 
heart, and laments for every unbelieving member of the 
Messiah's nation. 

The last clause of the text (Luke 19. 42), exhibits to me, 
the very construction of Matthew's Book of the Gospel, as 
the history of a rejected King, as well as Luke's appointment 
to honour the Son of Man, Mark's authority to exhibit the 
Perfect Servant, and John's praise of the Holy Ghost in his 
summary representation of Messiah's Divine Sonship, as the 
Mystery of God. "Now they are hid." Look over your 
sacred records, the lively Oracles, my lords the Jews, and 
consent that "the things which belong to thy peace," are 
published in Christ's sermon on the mount, which contains 
the glory of your Law in His hands whom you crucify from 
day to day. I say, that in Christ's hands, the Law possesses 
regenerating power, or it could not be magnified. Its nega- 
tive proportion "Thou shalt not," is watched by the Spirit 
that convinceth of sin ; and He beheld in Christ the absolute 

* John 2. 13, 6. 30 and 41 ; 7. 12, 8. 52, 10. 20, 9. 2.5, 18. 40, 19. 50. 
t Matt. 15. 5—9. Mark 12. 12. Luke 4. 28, 29. John 8. 59. 

t Zechariah 3. 9. Psalm 118; and Revelations 5. 7. 
§ Isaiah 7. 14, 9. 6, 7, 60. 19, 20. 



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perfection of God ; for Christ was tempted, and yet without 
sin; therefore, did Heaven cry out "Hear Him," as in original 
holy prophecy, Adonai speaks for Himself. See Isaiah 35. 
2, 3. " Hear, and your soul shall live." See John 5. 25 ; 
11. 43. 

I have never intended to represent the New Testament as 
a rival to the Law, or a system independent of the Law; but 
quite the reverse. Even the words " New Covenant," are 
connected with the Law, although its establishment is by 
better promises, for in it, is security to God, for Israel's 
obedience; and this safety, (on both sides, God's honour, and 
Israel's restoration), was effected by the Great Exchange. 
Innocence elected to suffer. Guilt visited on Purity. Death 
endured by the Life of lives. The Curse poured on the 
Blessed, that the cursed may be blest. 

Perhaps the Jews are not aware that repentance toward 
God, was one of the indispensable things belonging to Jeru- 
salem's peace ; and that the requisite repentance interested 
God, as much as His people ; but the latter must be first to 
repent. Christ mourning for Jerusalem's ignorance of her 
wound, and (John 6. 15) His rejection of David's throne in 
the day of His humiliation, are subjects of original prophecy, 
and exhibit the cause, viz. Jerusalem's uncleanness, impeni- 
tence, and unbelief. 

Who speaks by Isaiah ? (See chap. 3. v. 7.) 

"In that Day, He shall swear, saying I will not be a 
Healer, for in my house is neither bread nor clothing : make 
me not a Ruler of the people." 

N. B. On the very day that Christ wept over Jerusalem, He 
administered corporeal correction on the sacrilegious offenders 
in the temple, and then went out to the Mount of Olives. 



52 ADDRESS TO THE 

Isaiah, "In my house there is neither bread nor clothing.' ' 
Matthew, Mark, Luke, "But ye have made it a den of 
thieves." 

In all the prophetic records that concern Zion's deliverance 
in the latter days, Christ is deposited as her Corner Stone, her 
sure foundation ; and among the many titles (for His offices 
are various, and all (or each) have an appellation of honour 
suitable and choice) of Messiah is " The Sun of Righteous- 
ness." In His appearing to Mary Magdalen, on the morn- 
ing of His resurrection from the dead, there was a striking 
sample afforded of the literal glory of His coming to save the 
Remnant in that Day which burns as an oven, when the 
proud as stubble, shall be dust to the Avenger's Sword. 

The eleven — and five hundred — and Paul — beheld their 
glorious Sun; but Caiaphas, and all his friends were sur- 
rounded by darkness that was felt in their hearts, as a stone. 
Christ went up to His place. The heavens received His 
person ; and He sent the Spirit down to report (by Peter) His 
arrival in Heaven, His coronation and glory, and the return 
of His person to Zion, in the times of Restitution of all things 
spoken of God by the mouth of all His holy prophets since 
the world began. 

It is necessary to remark here, that " bread and clothing," 
acceptable to the True King, may be interpreted as sincerity 
and truth. 

" Blessed are the pure in heart, 

" For they shall see God." 
While the offence of the Cross remains, Judah's heart cannot 
be pure; and Christ came of Judah, so in rejecting Him, 
Judah and his companions have stripped Messiah's house of 
bread and clothing, therefore He will not rule over them. 



DISPERSED OF JUDAH. 53 

What is the consequence ? 

See Prov. 1st chapter. Blessed be God "A remnant shall 
escape ! ! !" 

* * * * * # 

Thus far I have urged the original validity of the Gospels, 
asserting that God is the Constituent and Jesus His Deputy, 
to carry out, and establish the Divine plan of free Salvation, 
to the Glory of God in man's redemption. Human nature 
was chosen to suffer, as for human nature mercy plead, 
leaving the rebel angels in their misery. I have represented 
Christ as the Nonpareil of Glory Divine, exhibited in form of 
a Perfect Servant, and the accepted Messenger of God, who 
spake by Him from Heaven; and spake of Him from Heaven, 
and unto Him from Heaven, yet Jerusalem would not believe, 
nor understand the things of her Peace ! 

My labour this day is with the same people ; and the cords 
of their controversy have been strengthened from age to age 
since the Apostolic expired, by the machinations of Israel's 
primal foe, the crooked serpent, the Slanderer of Truth, 
whose agents, from Mahomet to the last Desolator,* have 
found more ground to occupy, than is agreeable to Jewish 
opponents of the Cross ; and yet the latter, the Cross, bears 
all the reproach ; and so must it be, till Jerusalem has wrung 
out the dregs of God's vengeance, by accepting the Vile to 
prove her resistance against the Cross of Christ. Having 

* Daniel 11. 21, 23. N, B.— Shall work deceitfully.— Note verse 24th. The 
Vile person succeeds in establishing his matters in Jerusalem, and then comes 
to his end suddenly — the Apocalypse tells how ; and Paul likewise — 2 E. Thes. 
2. Awful theme ! The Devil's great wrath ! ! ! 



54 ADDRESS TO THE 

wrung out the dregs, Jerusalem must drink them ; and thus 
even the mountain of Zion shall be redeemed ; not by money, 
but by judgment ! 

But I have not advanced far enough upon the ground of 
controversy, that has for its professed Landmark the Unity 
of God. I have never said to the Jews that in every lan- 
guage ONE signifies a root of numbers ; and Unity means 
concord; and the pure definition of God is Existence; and 
Existence is opposed to non-existence, having all pretensions 
secure in Being, which must have a name in Himself, who 
never had a Beginning; but is Himself the Beginning, who 
Himself- never began, except beyond Himself, going out of 
Himself to begin what He chose to begin ; and it is written 
"In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth." 
Here are three divisions of testimony. 

1. In the Beginning 

2. God created 

3. The heavens and the earth. 

Now, I hold that Christ is the Beginning of the Creation 
of God ; but this is a concern of Eternity, and I am a crea- 
ture of time, and confess in this manner to Christ, as The 
Mystery of God. In Christ God began His works of crea- 
tion : In God, Christ finished the work of redemption. If 
you ask me when Christ as the Beginning, began to be, I 
shall answer you in plain terms, when God began ! ! ! Yes. 
When God began ! I will not move from this position ; but 
proceed to prove its order. 

1. " The Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters." 

After this the Word produced Light, that God saw, while 
sun, moon, and stars were not ; but they were ordained after 



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the firmament appeared by the Word of God, which I hold 
is Christ. 

After the five days' work, God said (here is Christ again 
— The Word), " Let us make man in our Image." ! how 
can this be gainsaid ? How can it be opposed, that as God 
is God, His Image is God ? If you deny this, you offer in- 
dignity to the unity of Yah-Ho-Vah ! 

Do you say to me, all this is separate from your Messiah ? 
I reply yes, it is so as you and the Romans treated Him; for 
His visage was marred by your unbelief, which the Blessed 
had to take* up also, crying Eloi, Eloi, Lama Sabachthani, 
just before He expired on the cross. I grant that the Unity 
of God, in Father, Son, and Spirit, is not to be proved by 
establishment of any visible Kingship or Kingdom upon 
earth ; but by the Revelation of God. This revelation I 
claim, for the Gospel of Christ, to the Glory of God, who, in 
the first instance is invisible, but now made manifest accord- 
ing to His own wisdom and His own pleasure, to whom be 
glory forever. Amen. 

For the right understanding of God, we must go to the 
root of numbers, as we are commanded to worship One, only 
One; and every other is false and vain, forbidden and judged. 
The Root is the Word ; and the Word is the Root ; and God 
said, Let us, &c. ; and so we have God, The Word, Image 
and Spirit — one God ! I proceed from this to the command- 
ments of Christ, as published by four men, who bore reproach 
for His Name; and three of them followed their Saviour unto 
martyrdom in the article of death. John, it seems, no means 



* He bore your unbelief ; and the show was an ignominious crown ! ! ! 



56 ADDRESS TO THE 

used by man, could kill. John was a special martyr, but 
God disappointed Death. 

" The Commandments of Christ !" Hear, Israel, the 
testimony of Christ, as He was riding into Jerusalem, upon a 
colt, the foal of an Ass. 

" I have not spoken of myself ;* 

" But the Father which sent me, 

" He gave me a commandment 

" What I should say, and what I should speak. 

« And I know that His commandment is life everlasting : 
whatsoever I speak, therefore, even as the Father said unto 
me, so I speak!" — John 12. 49, 50. 

With the painful truth in sight, that " Deceiver, Impostor, 
false prophet," &c, have been poured on the lowly head of 
Jesus for two thousand lunar years, I may well anticipate a 
contemptuous sneer, as the above citation is met by a Phari- 
see, a Sadducee, or a scribe of the Oral Law; and encouraged 
by an Apostate, there may issue from human lips, language 
that might scandalize even Satan himself. Fearing the worst, 
and yet faintly hoping to serve the Remnant, I shall take a 
briar from the wilderness of Sinai, and tingle therewith base 
spirits, sparing the piece of a millstone, that would break the 
skull, but never help the case. Such is the genius of the 
Gospel. 

At Sinai the whole congregation of Israel made a full de- 
claration of obedience to God ; and Moses reported the same 
to the Lord, who made no response as to Abraham on Mo- 
riah, or of Abraham in the plains of Mamre, but informed 
Moses that He would come to him in a thick cloud, that the 

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people might hear when He spake with Moses, and believe 
him forever.* You see the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and 
Jacob, had not the least confidence in that great boast of the 
children of Israel, that resulted from ignorance of their only 
safety, which is grace. 

The Lord then sent Moses to order all the people to clean 
themselves, and be ready on the third day, to stand before 
Adonai; for He would come down in the sight of all the peo- 
ple on Mount Sinai.t The interview took place ; and all the 
people trembled at the sound of the trumpet of God. 

It is written that Moses spake to God, who answered 
Moses by a VOICE. 

God spake to Israel the Ten Words, in midst of thunder- 
ings, lightnings, and the noise of the trumpet, while the 
mountain was full of smoke, and the congregation that three 
days previous had confidently professed universal assent and 
obedience to all speech Divine, were now so frightened, that 
they retreated, and stood afar off. — Ex. 20. 18. They said 
to Moses, speak thou with us, and we will hear; but let not 
God speak with us, lest we die. — v. 19. 

Thus they confessed to Moses, as to a Mediator ; and in 
less than forty days from that time, the same people said to 
Aaron, 

" Up, make us gods to go before us ; 

« For as for this Moses, the man that brought us up out of 
the land of Egypt, we wot not what is become of him." 

I see in this, the germ of your last apostacy, which only 
waits for development, by the descent of Satan to earth, 



* Exodus 19. 9. 

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t Exodus 19. 10, 11. 



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when he is cast out of the airy regions, which is Christ's 
heavenly barn ; and my reviewal of your failure in the wil- 
derness, forbids surprise at your blindness to the truth as it is 
in Jesus, who said to your ancestors, " Ye say, we see, there- 
fore your sin remaineth."— John 9. 41. So now, you profess 
to honour God, by disowning Jesus; and you have no Aaron 
to make new gods to go before you. 

I return to the commandments of Christ, who spake by the 
will of the Father. 

As my hand is on the paper that will present some of the 
commandments spoken to your fathers in Jerusalem, and the 
Holy Land, I have to confess, with shame and confusion of 
face this day, my own deficient example and disobedience to 
the same ; and to lament that I thus lack the measure of a 
believer's love. 

1. "Have faith in God."— Mark 11. 22. 

2. "Believe also in me." — John 14. 1. 

The first was intended for Himself, as sent of God ; and 
the second to honour the Son for the Father's sake, so that 
argument of contrariety is nonplussed, and Deists are put to 
shame. 

3. " Swear not at all."— Matt. 5. 35. 

A guard for the third Word of the ten. Obedience hath a 
continual blessing ; and transgression even shames the Devil 
who pays no wages for such sin. 

4. " Take heed that no man deceive you." — Matt. 24. 
The answer our Saviour gave to inquiries concerning the 

destruction of the temple (which He foretold) and the end of 
the Roman Age, which winds up the Gentile times. 

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5. " Think not that I am come to destroy the Law or the 
prophets." — Matt. 5. 

A positive injunction, and addressed to all mystifiers of the 
Word of God, as much as to Gospel rejectors. Opinion for- 
bidden on this wise, as the cause of foolish babblings. Let 
anti-Literalists look to it, that they are not wrecked on the 
quicksands of pride — spiritual pride. 

6. "Seek first the kingdom of God, and His righteous- 
ness." — Matt. 5. 

The Jewish doctors could not improve the health of Zion, 
because of their neglect of God's Word. Had they studied 
the Book of Daniel, as their Note Scroll, or the Sketch of 
Gentile Dynasty, confessing their national sins as Daniel did, 
how readily might they have understood that the Kingdom 
of God was at hand, and even then in their midst by the 
Great Preacher, who came to prepare a flock for the Holy 
Ghost to lead on to Heaven. 

7. " Be ye perfect, even as your Father which is in Hea- 
ven is perfect." — Matt. 5. 

With this statute, the Jews cannot quarrel ; nor censure 
Christ for preaching it. In the eleventh, nineteenth and 
twentieth chapters of the Priest's Law Book, the Lord com- 
mands Holiness, saying to His church as One, " Be ye holy, 
for I am holy; and God is "glorious in holiness, even Abso- 
lute Purity, which constitutes an infinity of separation be- 
tween Him and fallen Adam, so that as Joshua said, "Ye 
cannot serve God," so do I know (by grace) that God cannot 
be served aside from the mystery that brings out of earth an 
Adam that can ascend to Heaven in human likeness of the 



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first copy of the Image of God; and in sole possession of Im- 
mortality. 

"Be ye perfect" in Love, which is the abiding grace, as 
well as the golden key that opens the heart of God, and pours 
out upon the soul in her warfare, submission that happifies 
the renewed part, the mind — resignation, that softens adver- 
sity — fortitude, that beautifies the faith that is tried — patience, 
that sweetens afflictions; and Hope, that is an anchor cast 
within the Vail, even Jesus' sacred person, who appears in 
the Presence Above, as Surety for His followers, that they 
shall be like Himself perfect in the Resurrection. 

8. " Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth." 

I shall point the Jews to their Enosh state in the days of 
their coming up out of Egypt; and request them to reflect on 
the state of the manna that was left till the morning, contrary 
to God's order. "It bred worms and stank." Please re- 
member also, the fate of Achan, and the fall of Solomon. 

The Blessed Redeemer despised the sin of covetousness, as 
Satan's meanest way of destroying souls. A man once said 
to Him, Master, speak to my brother that he divide the in- 
heritance with me. Jesus replied, "Who made me a judge, 
or a divider over you." " Take heed and beware of cove- 
tousness ; for a man's life consisteth not in the abundance of 
the things which he possesseth." Much might be said on 
the subject of this commandment ; but I pass to its opposite. 

9. " Lay up for yourselves treasures in Heaven." 

It may be said that prayer is the way of conveyance, and 
that the works of faith, labours of love, and patience of hope, 
are the riches of Christ's disciples. Very good. They belong 
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Him are hid (says Paul) all the treasures of wisdom and 
knowledge. But the literal meaning is not absorbed in the 
spiritual. "Do good and lend," "give alms of such things 
as ye have," are taxes on your money and your goods, ye 
possessors of worldly wealth; and the grand Bank Pay Day 
will open on obedient subjects immortal glory for their little 
pains to please the King. 

Nor is silver and gold coin, or food and raiment, all that is 
required. 

" I was a stranger, and ye took me in," cries the King, as, 
sitting upon Mount Zion, He judgeth the nations. How 
great, yea infinite, is the love of Christ for His poor ! He 
calls them His brethren ; for Christ's poor " do the will of 
God," and poverty is generally their lot. Holy angels are 
poor on earth — in Heaven, their native home, they have no 
need. I assert that to God, the prayers of Christ's poor are 
more precious than all the preaching that is done. Upon 
earth Jesus was destitute of a shelter, after He commenced 
the Father's service, in publishing a heavenly kingdom; and 
(except two dinners) we cannot trace charity for Him, except 
to the door of a woman in Bethany, and in the footsteps of 
female followers. It is written that "Martha received Him 
into her house." The Blessed One was not long their debtor. 
Martha was rewarded even in this world. 

" Lay up for yourselves," &c. Let the prayers of poor 
saints, perfume your prayers, ye that are rich, for Christ is 
their representative at the golden altar ; and let your prayers 
accompany alms, that God may honour your works. 

And the poor lay up treasure in Heaven also. Christ saw 
a poor widow cast in all the money she had in her posses- 



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sion, and it was only two half-farthings. Her praise from 
Jesus' lips was, that she had given more than all the rich. 

10. "Love your enemies. 11. Do good to them which 
hate you. 12. Bless them that curse you. 13. Pray for 
them that despitefully use you and persecute you." 

Christ represented obedience to these laws as the terms of 
adoption into the family of God, whom He styled " their Fa- 
ther which is in Heaven," as they, whom He addressed, were 
His disciples. The example of God, in causing His sun to 
shine upon the evil and the good, and sending His rain upon 
the just and the unjust, Jesus presented as a stimulus to the 
grace that bringeth salvation, and teacheth the necessity of 
crucifying the passions and lusts generated in man by the 
devil, since man's fall in Eden. 

How perfect was the Lawgiver ! I shall present the sum- 
mary evidence : "Father forgive them, for they know not 
what they do !" 

14. "A New commandment I give unto you, that ye 
love one another as I have loved you, that ye also love one 
another." 

15. "This is my commandment that ye love one another, 
as I have loved you." 

16. "These things I command you that ye love one 
another." 

To love as Christ loved — ah! this is the tower of grace, 
on which to sit, the soul must part with self, and bid this 
age adieu ! 

When the Holy person of Christ was assailed by the 
mob in Gethsemane, He plead for His poor little frightened 
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17. "Watch and Pray." 

Let this command stand before the Jews, without my 
poor comments; and as it is a concern of theirs, as well as 
mine, I beg to ask, how can you approach God with your 
prayers, seeing that you have no Mediator, or sacrifice? 

1 believe in Christ; and by His very person, exalted to 
sit on His Father's throne on high, I come to God. That 
command of my Lord to Philip " Believe me that 1 am in 
the Father and the Father in me," by Grace of the Spirit of 
truth, I am enabled to keep, and to hold it fast in the little 
child's hand, even Faith. 

18. "Thou shalt love the Lord thy God (see Hozea 1) 
with all thy heart, and with all thy mind, and with all thy 
strength." Is not this a perfect exegesis of the original statute, 

" Thou shalt have no other gods before me? 

" This is the first, and great commandment (in the law.) 

" And the second is like unto it: 

18. "Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself." "On 
these two commandments, hang all the law and the pro- 
phets." Matt. 22. 37, 40. 

In Deuteronomy, which is emphatically Moses' Book, and 
is a review of the building up of a worldly sanctuary, in 
connection with the Lord's Land, there is recorded an 
exhortation by Moses, (as God's mouth to Israel) which 
Christ adopted as the Great Commandment to all gene- 
rations, and forever. 

Great emphasis rests upon the words, "Thy God," 
following Adonai; and the latter in connection with the 
former, is solemnly prefaced with " I AM," and led on by 
" The Lord," to " Thy God," which is a positive Law of 



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the Spirit (as may well be understood), actually imprisons 
Israel in Hope of a Manifestation; and this they are com- 
manded to Love, as their Peace: their Provider: their 
Banner: their Righteousness, Healer, and King. 

Jesus is that Manifestation. He stood in the sight of 
the Jews, as "the Son of man," when a lawyer asked 
Him which was the first commandment in the Law. In 
the humiliation of a voluntary service to God for the cir- 
cumcision, Christ did not say, thou shalt love me supremely, 
because God, not being the God of the dead, but of the 
living (see Mark 12. 23,) the Holy Lamb, knowing that 
His body must lay dead in Adam's likeness, three days, in 
the heart of the earth, which is a Stone, would not subject 
one soul to such an exigency, and even despair. But after 
His release from the infirmity, (or likeness of Adam in his 
fall,) Christ in human flesh and bones, stood before faithful 
witnesses, as the presence that Moses longed to behold; 
and the God that David's soul panted after as the hart to 
find the water brooks; and commanded them to preach His 
Gospel. I insist therefore, that the Jews can never be 
converted to God, until they recognize Adonai, in the poor 
Child that was bora with the power of an endless Life, 
and is laid, as living Bread at their door, by God the Spirit 
moving upon the face of the waters, to introduce Light 
into the world. 

19. "Take heed to yourselves:" (Look to your own ways: 
ponder your own hearts: reflect upon your own conduct: 
weigh your own spirits: search out your own faults, errors, 
sins, follies, trespasses, vanities, and want of the virtues 
that shone in Jesus,) — "if thy brother trespass against 
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In the Priest's Law Book, it is recorded in the nineteenth 
chapter, and at the 16 — 18, as follows: "Thou shalt not go 
up and down as a talebearer among thy people; neither 
shalt thou stand against the blood of thy neighbour:" (see 
Matt. 27. 22 and 24, Mark 15. 13, 14.) "I AM, the Lord." 

"Thou shalt not hate thy brother in thine heart: thou 
shalt in any wise rebuke thy neighbour: (that thou bear 
not sin for him is the marginal reading in English Bibles) 
and not suffer sin upon him." 

" Thou shalt not avenge : nor bear any grudge against the 
children of thy people; but, 

« Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself." " I AM 
the Lord." 

At these points of the Law, Christ in His first Advent, 
stood before the children of Israel, as their neighbour. How 
have you treated Him? Can you handle the Priest's Law 
Book, with pure hands? No, my lords, no; your fathers 
did not rebuke Christ as a brother, nor love Him as a 
neighbour. They accused Him of blasphemy: they 
arraigned Him as a malefactor: they hung Him as 
Accursed of God; and you their descendants, (according 
to your own profession), walk in the same spirit, and 
maintain the same cause. 

God is your Judge. 1 am your poor servant and a well 
wishing neighbour to the remnant of Israel forever, for 

Christ's sake, to whom be Glory. Amen. 

***** 

I pass from the Books of the Gospels, to the Acts and 
the Epistles of the Apostles of Christ Jesus The Lord. 
I find that enmity is increased, and opposition to the 
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standard + confirmed, by Peter's boldness, aided and 
followed by his fellow apostles in the ministry of Gospel 
Grace, Mercy, and Peace from God. The onward course 
of a spiritual fulfilment of the seventy-sixth Psalm was 
however to prevail by the Holy Power given to men, so 
that the wrath of man, whether in scribes, pharisees, or 
priests of the Law, was evidently turned to Gospel account, 
by Peter's mission to Cornelius, Paul's conversion to the 
faith of Christ, and. his Legation to preach the unsearchable 
riches of Christ to the Gentiles. 

The Acts of the Apostles, (commencing with the Hebrew 
Church of Christ at Jerusalem, and closing with Paul's 
preaching the kingdom of God at Rome), is a history of the 
Holy Ghost Power sent as the Promise of the Father, by 
Christ Jesus, The Lord, from Heaven to earth, and the 
personality of the Spirit was a direct admonition to the 
Jews of the result of their enmity to the Cross of Christ. 
Upon every member of the church that then struggled in 
the womb of faith, and burst into the new creation of Christ 
by prayer, there sat the form of cloven tongues, apparently 
composed of a radiating fluid, called fire, which means heat ; 
and is originally, a representative of judgment, that is due 
to the honour of God, as well as the symbol of His Justice;* 
and likewise denotive of persecution, and great afflictions. 
The latter were dealt to these holy children, and to their 
converts, by wholesale, in stripes, imprisonments, and a 
variety of insults, until the death of Stephen (by stoning) 
roused the Lord Jesus to stand up before His Father, who 

* Fire from Heaven on Sodom and Gomorrah — Judgment. 
Fire for sacrificial purpose on Moriah — Justice. 



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opened Heaven to the Proto-Christian Martyr, and enabled 
Him to report his Saviour's position to his murderers, 
in the hearing of a young man, that held their clothes; and 
to this young man was (afterward) given grace, to endure 
stoning at Lystra, by Jews from Antioch, for bearing wit- 
ness to the Grace of God, by Jesus Christ the Lord. 

The Epistles of Paul are in character with his Commission, 
given to him by Christ, and designated to the church by the 
Holy Ghost; but their construction is different, and great 
faith is necessary for the reader of Paul's "deep things," 
especially if he is a Literalist, on account of patience ; for the 
anti-literalist constitutes Paul the Oracle of Gospel mystify- 
ing, and the student of prophecy embraces Paul by faith of 
the Messiah in His coming Kingdom, which of course is not 
to stand in meats and drinks, but in righteousness, peace, 
and joy of God the Spirit, as one of your great reformers 
said, " The Joy of the Lord is your strength." — See Neh. 8. 
10. 

Paul was an eminent example of full surrender to the 
Lord, as he taught his fellow men, saying, "Whatsoever ye 
do, do it heartily, as unto the Lord, and not unto men." 
Col. 3. 17, 23. As the servant of Christ, to bear His Name 
to the heathen, Paul had sympathy with Abraham, as a 
devoted believer of the Gospel preached to him by Christ, 
saying, " in thee, and in thy Seed, shall all nations of the 
earth be blessed." Great sorrows were in Paul's heart, 
from his conversion on the road to Damascus, to martyrdom 
upon a scaffold at Rome ; for he loved the dead branches of 
the good Olive, as his own soul ; but not as he loved Christ, 
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In the warfare of Gospel faith, Paul stood with his face 
steadfastly fixed upon his Glory, which was the Cross of his 
Lord and Messiah; and terrestrial things lay beneath the 
apostle's feet, as dead. Knowing by experience the terrors 
of the Lord ; and realizing his personal need of the faith he 
had tried to destroy, Paul resolutely pursued his course of 
duty, wrestling against principalities and powers, and spirit- 
ual wickedness in high places, with but one aim, even to 
win souls to Christ, as witnesses to his sincerity, devotion, 
and zeal for God. 

In conformity to the dispensation, Paul gave everything 
to the church of God among the Gentiles, until the times of 
their fulness ; but in such a way, and on such terms, as se- 
cured to Israel their Glory in the ages to come, by the 
promised Deliverer of Zion. Paul strictly held to "times 
and seasons" to " Covenants and Promises." 

So useful a man, perhaps, as mere man, never existed as 
Paul the Apostle of Christ to the Gentiles. Look even at his 
system of morality, and confess that you see an exposition of 
your holy Law. If only the twelfth chapter to the Romans, 
and the fourth, fifth, and sixth to the Ephesians, were fully 
obeyed, would state or county prisons, penitentiaries, jails, 
houses of refuge, &c, be necessary in America ? No ; nor 
should we be careful about locks and keys, bolts or bars. 
" The tree is known by its fruit," said the Blessed. Yes. In 
Syria I saw a castor-oil tree. I did not look for apples, 
plums, or peaches on its branches. 

Are the foregoing remarks to be likened to the toss of a 
ball into a large country ? I shall reply, that a profession of 
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of N. A., that I overlooked (for the moment), the neglect of 
sacred reading by an opposite class ; and yet a multitude of 
Gallios, and numbers of Paine's disciples, stand within the 
pale of Christendom, a scandal to infidels uninterested in the 
policy, of "a name to live." 

Paul is safe ; and his works will follow the resurrection of 
his body in "the peep of dawn" of that Day without clouds, 
that reveals the Glory of the Lord when all flesh shall see it 
together. 

Peter's two Letters (written in his old age), represent 
"apples of gold in pictures of silver," or graces of Jesus 
exhibited by mortals "called out of darkness into marvellous 
light." Moral virtues, Peter knew, were of higher extrac- 
tion than human philosophy, so he commences building up 
an assurance of eternal Rest, by placing faith at the head, 
and after all, he concludes with an exhortation to "grow in 
grace." 

James has addressed his short epistle to the "twelve tribes 
scattered abroad." I shall venture to express my belief of 
the intent of the Spirit of Christ in this singular superscrip- 
tion, and to say also, on this page, as in other parts of my 
work, that apostacy from Christianity, has stirred up my 
mind to great plainness. 

It does appear to me, that James was led to confess the 
Christian Jews,* as representing the elect Nation ; and op- 
posers of the Cross were to God Lo-ammi. In the time of 
the apostles, the Christian Church of believers had the sign 
of the everlasting covenant with them, even after they were 
scattered by the persecution that erTected the death of Ste- 

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phen. Christians rested with their Master, until A. D. 360. 
Then the sign was given up, and you, my lords, have it in 
nominal keeping ; but James is still addressing (as before), 
his brethren in Christ. You, my lords, are at perfect liberty 
(so far as my friendly wishes can avail), to read, and to 
practice, the precepts inculcated by the Apostle James about 
sixty years after the crucifixion of the Lord of Glory. You 
will assent that James adheres very close to your Divine 
Law ; and I think he " so learned Christ." 

John (the beloved disciple) has exhibited in his Epistles, 
the entire growth of the Tree of Life, in God. So very close 
is the cementation of original Love to the Blood that bears 
witness, and so resolved that God is the sole Author of Sal- 
vation, and sole dispenser of mercy, that room for cavil is 
excluded from the Epistles extant ; and so the devil has to 
contrive help for his ministers, by circulating the slander, 
that such and such portions are not to be found in the origi- 
nal Greek. For shame ye " evil men, and seducers" — the 
doctrine of John's Epistles, has " thus saith the Lord" by 
Isaiah, and David, and other holy men, who spake as they 
were moved by the Holy Ghost. 

I suppose a devout Jew will discern in his conscience, the 
necessity of obedience to the close of the 1 E. Gen. of John — 
"keep yourselves from Lilols;" and who can reject his argu- 
ment (see verse 11 E. 3d), "He that doeth good is of God; 
He that doeth evil hath not seen God;" or prove that there 
is any refuge for the soul, save God's Love ? 

The short, and powerful letter of Jude (the brother of 
James), to " the sanctified by God, the Father," and " pre- 
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already begun in the Christian Church, and traces the origin 
to Cain, who was of the devil. This is true by similitude ; 
for Cain rejected the truth, and pretended at the same time 
to honour God. Cain offered to God the fruits of the earth, 
as one man would bring a present to another ; but sacrifice 
he withheld, and retained sin. Beside Cain, Jude introduces 
two other names, as confederate with Satan's Possession, 
even Cain ; and these three are a figure of the triumvirate 
against the Lamb at the end of this world (i. e. the present, 
which is the Roman Age). The- Epistle of Jude is full of 
great things, even the warnings of God by past judgments, 
and His threateniugs of vengeance yet to come. What 
figures can be stronger than " Blackness ! of darkness ! for- 
ever !" 

Finally, on the exalted platform of sacred truth, I leave 
each and every Apostolic Letter, as designed to honour one 
God, and to promote all that God loves ; and as to my hum- 
ble view, the burden of the Word of the Lord is the Manger 
— the Cross — and the Tomb. I associate all the Epistles with 
" Law and testimony," assuredly believing that admonition 
for Christianity (in its theoretical department), is laid upon 
every conscience as they are read ; and woe to those who 
resist the truth. 

I am now come to the Divine Apocalypse, aptly entitled 
"The Revelation of Jesus Christ." 

As I receive the New Covenant Books, entitled Gospel, 
as Divine subject matter, literal and sound both in history 
and in doctrine, so I take the acts and the epistles of Christ's 
messengers, as provident helps to my faith, and corroborative 
witnesses to the long suffering goodness of God to sinful 
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But — what can I say, is the sum of my conclusions . on the 
Roll of stupendous realities, entitled The Revelation of Jesus 
Christ. I confess that I know not how to begin* except that 
I aver it is a Book of Prophecy ; and Christ Risen is the 
Soul, represented as a Lamb just slain, even in Heaven ! 
That Heaven, I believe is symbolic — it is Christianity. Apos- 
tates crucify Christ afresh ; and put Him to open shame ; and 
their infancy (of character) is backsliding, their childhood 
mocking, their youth enmity, and the strength of days 
blasphemy. Against the very last Revelation that has ever 
been made upon earth, of matters that concern the decree of 
God declared to the Serpent in the day of Adam's fall, these 
children of Satan set themselves in battle array, and by 
them, their father the devil, darts the arrows of heresy, or 
throws Hell's firebrands of unbelief, false construction, wrong 
interpretation, and uncertain conclusions, upon this grand 
Panorama of Christ's Day, and the Day of God. It is 
strange iniquity ; and will suffer strange punishment, even 
all the plagues mentioned in the Book. 

Perhaps there is some ground for conviction that the pre- 
sent form, or construction of this great Book of Prophecy, is 
a variation from the original. I am looking at the title-page, 
and pondering its Motto, saying, how may I rest on this 
assurance of a blessing, if I cannot understand the things 
which are written ? I am at a loss concerning the words 
following the title-page, viz. "John to the seven churches in 
Asia;" but the sentence is at the head, like a superscription 
of any letter ; and as I cannot see why, 1 must leave it. 

1 do really think there is room for an opinion, that this 
sacred Book was violated in the dark time of mysticism, 



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which is the germ of radical gentilism ; and is Satan's device 
to prevent the instructions of Wisdom, and puts darkness for 
light, &c. It is a fact that in the fifth and sixth centuries of 
the Christian Era, such notice was taken of the undue variety 
in translations of the New Testament, that corrections were 
deemed indispensable. As this work was not considered 
sufficient, one of the most celebrated correctors* of the Vul- 
gate, acknowledged that errors remained, which (he said) 
expediency let remain. See Calmet Diet. 

Sometimes, I view this Book as a noble Ruin. In the 
first instance, He that stood upon the waters, in Daniel's 
vision, is represented (according to our present translation), 
standing on Gentile ground ; and in the midst of the (note 
the establishment by the presence of the article), seven 
churches — all in Asia — not one in Greece. — Where is Paul's 
work — John was never sent to the Gentiles in person, like 

Paul or Peter. 

To these seven churches, the Revelation of Jesus Christ is 
sent ! These churches are then to be considered as a grand 
Depository of God ! Where are the candlesticks now ? In 
the middle of the nineteenth century, what interest to Christ's 
reign upon Mount Zion, is given by all Asia? 

The present translation of the Divine Apocalypse repre- 
sents those seven churches as "kings and priests to God;" 
and then follows the loud blast of the seventh trumpet, 

" Behold ! He cometh with clouds, 

" And every eye shall see Him ; 

" And they also which pierced Him ; 

" And all kindreds of the earth 

* Cardinal Belarmine. 
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« Shall wail because of Him ! 

" Even so. Amen." 
Moses, David, Isaiah, Daniel, Joel, Micah, Habakkuk, 
Zechariah, our Blessed Lord, and His Apostles, Paul, Peter, 
James and Jude, afford us testimony of the Advent to reign 
gloriously, but " He that hath the Key of David," is not re- 
presented standing upon Gentile ground, and only as a 
Watchman of Gentile Churches. Messiah coming in the 
clouds, riding on the heavens as upon a horse, marching 
from Edom's battle ground to Zion, sitting in the valley of 
Jehoshaphat to judge the infidel armies, standing on the 
Mount of Olives, with ten thousands of His saints, and 
flaming cherubims, or seated upon David's throne, calling all 
the nations of the world before Him, is truly designated by 
the Holy Ghost as Jerusalem's Great King, and the Bruiser 
of Satan's head. " Prophecy in old time came by the will 
of God ;" and as the latter is immutable, whether in purpose, 
precept, or command, the words of His mouth must glorify 
it in their literal, as well as spiritual fulfilment at the last 
day. Prophecy of Gospel date is but a renewal of the chart, 
or a revival of the word, and the Divine Apocalypse is a 
Ring between the Dispensation of the Holy Ghost, and the 
glorious epiphany of Christ to fight for Zion, and restore all 
things. This ring connects the two Advents of Christ in one 
great respect, which is explained by two opposites : " I am 
He that liveth, and was dead." 

With sad surprise, and with a shudder of horror, the 
mind that is ruled by Him that is sent to show Christ's 
things, while Christ is on His Father's throne, relucts from 
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translators of that Book which, alone bears the high and 
glorious title of " The Revelation of Jesus Christ." Awful 
is the crime. Its punishment is just. 

The questions may be propounded, who, or by whom, 
and where, and when, was this Book of Prophecy arranged 
according to its present order as translated from the Greek 
language ? I would set my name with such inquirers, did 
I believe that truth would come out; but with my present 
convictions I rest on the declaration of my Saviour (see 
Matt. 10. 26; and Luke 12. 2,) and a sentence written by 
King Solomon (see Ecclesiastes 12. 14,) also the twelfth verse 
of the twentieth chapter of the venerable Prophecy which I 
desire to honour in my Address to the Jews. — I feel justified 
in declaring to you, this day, that I have some faith in God, 
that He does attend to the voice of my supplications; and I 
announce to my lords, as in sight of the Lord, that the 
balance of thoughts in my heart concerning this thing, 
inclines to the party which cried crucify Him.* Yes; and 

* According to Eusebius (a disciple of Poly carp) John resided at Ephesus, 
after his release from captivity in Patmos. The Christian church at Ephesus, 
was founded by Paul (as an instrument,) by whom the Holy Ghost came on 
twelve Jews, who were convinced that Jesus is the Christ, under the preach- 
ing of Apollos, a man " mighty in the scriptures," "and he spake boldly in 
the synagogue." Three years after Paul's first visit to Ephesus, he declared 
to those twelve men, that not only " grievous wolves (i. e. corrupt teachers, 
or false prophets,) should waste that church, (not belonging to it at first) but 
likewise, said the apostle, of your own selves shall men arise, speaking 
perverse things, to draw away disciples after them." About ten years after 
Paul had taken leave of this beloved brotherhood in Jesus, Jerusalem was 
besieged, and conquered by the army of her chosen king.t A million of 
Jews were ushered into eternity by that dreadful war, nearly 100,000 were 

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when I discerned this in myself, I said, it is a counterpart 
of the first mortal sin in Christ's Church of the Holy Chost; 

taken prisoners by Titus, and the miserable survivors fled in every direction, 
monuments of the Divine Justice that notified Israel in the wilderness, that 
the Holy Ghost would not pardon sin. See Exodus 33, 22. Faithfully did 
Stephen warn the Jews; and they recompensed him with Stones against the 
life of his body, and anathemas on his soul. It does not appear that Jerusa- 
lem's ruin effected any change for the better, upon her outcast children. 
Their power to kill, or to imprison Jesus' saints, was gone; and the con- 
tumelious name they had given to the King of kings was returned with 
interest, with various abuses, and contempt of the iron feet, at Rome, the 
seat of their chosen king. 

It pleased God to spare the beloved disciple, or rather to save him from 
martyrdom, by miracle, for the special purpose of Glory to the Name of 
Jesus; and by Nero's successor, John was banished to Patmos; where God 
the Spirit enveloped every power of his soul, that interference of self, or of 
Satan, was impossible. " The Lord's Day" was exhibited to John, according 
to the tenor of original, holy prophecy; and as such I accept the Book, and 
believe that the consummation of Apostacy, is destruction of Mystery Babylon, 
the reign of Satan embodied in human form, upon David's throne, and the 
latter brings Christ out of Heaven to execute the vengeance written. 

I consider that a descendant, or descendants of any of those twelve Jews 
that confessed Christ at Ephesus in Paul's time, in case of his, or their 
desertion of the Cross, might readily answer Satan's purpose, even to reverse 
the order of the Apocalypse, deduct from, and add to its contents, so that 
even the right mode of understanding the Book, is adhered to by weak 
Christians at this day with little success. An apostate at Ephesus, assisted 
by a forlorn exile by Titus, might think that to destroy this work of a 
favourite child of grace, would hinder the circulation of truth, as spoken to 
Mary Magdalen by our Lord; and the Gentiles believing His ascension, 
would of course have the honour to preach His return. It is no marvel that 
the Jews, denying the Holy Ghost, should dread the return of Jesus Christ 
to Jerusalem ! ! ! especially at this time, when they are trying every means 
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but far beyond in consequences; and more intimate with 
the old Serpent in black malice, than any other apostate, 
even Cain, Koran, Ahitophel, and Judas not excepted. 

It is a matter of great thankfulness to believers in Christ 
crucified, that God has preserved so much of the literality 
of the Apocalypse, as the title-page exhibits. " The Reve- 
lation of Jesus Christ," so, that a remark of the Apostate 
" it is all taken from the old Testament," does it no harm. 
I glory in the Book as a reality to my Redeemer, for tes- 
timony to His person and His works, as He Himself, is the 
Soul of prophecy. 

After the promised Seed appeared on earth, and fulfilled 
every demand of righteousness for an example of perfect 
service to God, and submitted to the original decree by an 
ignominious death, as though His spotless life had no merit 
by the Law, " Do and Live," it is a righteous expectation 
that His reward must be published from the heavens, even 
the third Heaven, which is God's dwelling — see Isaiah 57. 
15 — and throne. Behold Jesus in the fifty-third chapter of 
Isaiah; and you will consent to the above position. 

It is a mystery, that every humble soul must adore, but 
cannot define, that Christ in His high exaltation, as the in- 
carnate Son of God, is on probation in Heaven for the glory 
of the nature He adopted on earth, that He might bruise the 
Serpent's head. In Heaven, as in this world, Christ is sub- 
ject to the Father (until the times of restitution — see Acts 3. 
21) as David testified by the Holy Ghost. 

66 The Lord said unto my Lord, 

" Sit thou at my right hand, 

" Until I make thine enemies thy footstool." 



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In the Apocalypse is manifested an exact opposite. Now 
behold the manner of God's work. By Daniel we understand 
the set time of the judgment; c. 7. The blasphemy of Anti- 
Christ, sitting as God in the temple at Jerusalem, elicits judg- 
ment; and in the Apocalypse Christ's Human nature is repre- 
sented as worthy of worship, even in Heaven, because by 
His Blood, He is in the midst of the throne that is set ex- 
pressly for judgment. The figure in use by God, the Giver 
of this great Revelation of Jesus' Christ, is a Lamb, " as it 
had been slain ;" but invested with all power (seven horns) 
and possessed of all Wisdom (seven eyes) and taking all con- 
sequences on Himself. He is recognized in Heaven, as the 
Lion of Judah ; and The Root of David. 

I am a poor, insignificant worm — a very small grain of 
dust, and as vanity ; but it pleases the Great Father above to 
give me peace in my soul like a river, while I testify to the 
Jews, that Christ is to be worshipped in Heaven as a Lamb, 
when upon earth, the Wild Beast from the Abyss, claims 
adoration as God; and his adherents among the Jews, are 
addressed in the 65th and 66th chapters of Isaiah, as a curse 
in sight of the remnant that under Christ, shall inherit Bless- 
ing forever. 

At the opening of the great triumph of the Lamb, a new 
Song is sung. It is a confession to the Lamb, and to Him is 
offered the prayers of saints. After the elders, angels worship 
the Lamb, saying, " Worthy is the Lamb 

That was slain, 

To receive Power 

And Riches, 

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And Honour, 
And Glory and Blessing. 
The remainder of that chapter is fulfilled after the eleventh 
chapter; or comes in just upon the proclamation that Christ 
is returned to Zion. Then the remnants of David, Joseph 
and Judah, collected from the twelve tribes of the children of 
Israel, that are sealed up fast in grace while the judgment 
seals are opened by the Lamb in His wrath, are standing 
upon a sea of glass to sing the Song of Moses and the Lamb. 
This celebrates their victory over the Beast; and they are 
afterward seen with the Lamb on Mount Zion ; and learn to 
sing the New Song. This is separate from Moses ; and sa- 
vours more of the covenant with Abraham, who said, " God 
will provide Himself a Lamb, my son." After the Millennium, 
and the last temptation by Satan, and the universal judg- 
ment, are succeeded by the new heavens and the new earth, 
in which the holy Jerusalem is located, I see, by faith in the 
pearl gates of the heavenly city, the names of the twelve 
tribes of the Children of Israel, according to the sealing. On 
every gate twelve names; and twelve times twelve is 144. 
This is a beautiful finish of the election of grace unto glory, 
that can never end. For comparisons of Old and New pro- 
phecy that regard this Remnant, and my thoughts about 
them, see Note 2, Appendix. 

Considering my testimony is intended to be literal, and my 
object is to honour this book of prophecy, according to its 
Title, the Jews will please to note its reality, although dis- 
pensed partly, in emblematical form. I say this to guard 
some parts of this sacred prophecy; for like Sinai of old, it is 
replete with the terrors of Israel's Jealous Lord God ! As 



80 ADDRESS TO THE 

the Epiphany of Jesus from the heavens is to save Zion, and 
as she is to endure the ordeal of His wrath, precedent to her 
ultimate deliverance, I am bold to claim for the most occult 
portions of this book, (which now appears thrown back and 
forth, sometimes purely symbolic and again plainly literal), 
the solemn veneration of the Jews now upon earth ; for 
surely their day of visitation is very near; and "who can 
abide it ?" 

I shall now engage your attention to the subject of the ele- 
venth chapter, in some connection with the vials of wrath, 
and the gathering to Armageddon. 

0! my Father! I am weak, "But thou art my Strength 
for thy Word's sake ; and it is written, Out of the mouth of 
babes thou hast perfected praise." 

It appears that Jacob's trouble will engross the loudest 
blast of two woe trumpets. Under the sound of the fifth 
trumpet (the first Woe) Abaddon appears. He obtains the 
confidence of rich Jews ; and by the second Woe has power 
to slay the third part of men. It is not difficult to opine 
that he conducts his army from the Euphrates to Jerusalem, 
and is there accepted as Messiah. 

Jerusalem is measured; and forty-two months she shall 
endure the disgrace of disinheritance even to her name, 
which is then recollected by the crucifixion of her True King; 
and her allegiance to the Great Lie, constitutes her Sodom 
and Egypt. 

We may believe, that the Vile person possesses Jerusalem 
just forty-two months, after he plants the tabernacles of his 
palace in the glorious holy mountain between the great Sea 
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trumpet is sounding ; and woe in every blast, as it is written, 
"I will heap mischiefs upon them. I will spend my arrows 
upon them." — Deut. 32. 23. The short reign of the Vile is 
represented in the Book of Nahum ; and the majesty of 
Christ in His second Advent. The testimony of Elijah I 
think is foretold in the last verse of the first chapter, which is 
sanqtified to the Remnant. 

In the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which is the harvest of 
the prophecies, that concern restitution to God in the last 
time, and is the gathering of them all into His Name for ac- 
complishment, our Blessed Lord is represented " a man of 
war," and " God that taketh vengeance !" His Mediator- 
ship, with all its reserves of mercy for the ungodly, is laid 
aside ; and He says, " He that is unjust, let him be unjust 
still; and he which is filthy, let him be filthy still." Awful 
judgment! This is certainly a part of the testimony borne 
for him, because it is a public matter upon earth, and must 
belong to the crown of the dread Apostacy, the reign of Anti- 
Christ on Mount Zion. 

" 1 will give to my two witnesses ; and they shall prophesy 
a thousand, two hundred and threescore days, clothed in 
sackcloth." 

Since Paul's commission to preach the Gospel to the hea- 
then, we are not informed either in the Acts or the Epistles, 
that Christ has re-assumed His personality in sending men to 
preach in His Name; but put His blessing on the witness of 
the Spirit of truth, and He that convinceth of sin, convicts 
also of duty. But in the Revelation, Christ Himself speaks, 
as to Moses in Horeb, in Egypt, at the Red Sea, and in the 
wilderness. 

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Question : Has Christ only two witnesses, in the reign of 
Anti-Christ ? 

Answer: For that forty-two months of Jerusalem's un- 
cleanness by the Wild Beast, only two ; and they must be 
looked for by name in the Old Testament scriptures of truth; 
for Christ was made under the Law, a servant of the circum- 
cision for the truth of God, to confirm the promises made 
imto the fathers. As the names of the two witnesses, must 
be on record with the Spirit's testimony to Satan's Bruiser, 
so must their persons be seen in company with His person, 
and they are to recollect Him in their vocation under the 
Law, as His Law, which is set at nought by worship of an 
Image made to the Beast. At Jerusalem, the seat of war 
with God, these two prophets pour out the golden oil of tes- 
timony for the God of truth to all that will hear ; and distri- 
bute summary punishments on their opposers. 

Who are they? Christ's two witnesses? "Who are 
these?" I reply "God knoweth; and I know that the 
Secret of the Lord is with them that fear Him;" and as 
I am certain that Jesus is the speaker to John, while His 
angel exhibits the City, River, and Sea of life to the vision 
of that beloved disciple; and as the words are very plain 
" My two witnesses," I have a right to look for them, in 
the history of Jesus, as the Son of man; and in Matthew's 
Book of History of the Son of David, King of the Jews; 
and in Mark's account of the perfect Servant. 

Now, my lords the Jews, I invite your attention to the 
Gospel account of the transfiguration; and I beg you will 
use sober reflection, and exercise candour toward the sorrow 
stricken worm that gives you her testimony. Surely my 



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lords, the Life of Christ, as a history, claims your attention. 
He was a Jew ; and his mother was the daughter of Heli, 
a descendant from David by Nathan, who was righteous 
before God, and is exalted to lineage with the second Man, 
Jesus Christ, the last Adam. — See 1 Cor. 15. 45. Perhaps 
you will say, that I am dictatorial, and that I overpeer the 
lawful sphere of woman, in this essay to honour Christ. Do 
I exceed the fair Abigail at Carmel, as she urged her suit for 
the life of a worthless husband, at the feet of David? Indeed 
I do not, like her, plead for my own words, but am striving 
to exalt the Gospel of God; and should my exertions fail, 
and be " like water spilt on the ground which cannot be 
gathered up again," I shall enjoy the assurance that I have 
been permitted by the Lord, to give you line upon line of 
reference to your own Law and prophets, that foreshadow 
and foretell the faith of Jesus, for which I speak to the flinty 
Rock, even Judah's heart, and pray in deaf ears, " hear ye 
deaf, and look ye blind that ye may see." 

Of all historic records ever made upon earth, is not the 
preservation of the New Testament to be considered the 
greatest miracle? At the first dawn of Gospel Salvation, 
when prophecy commanded Jerusalem to rejoice in the 
coming of her king, she called Him Beelzebub, and resort- 
ed to Gentile authority for His destruction ! What a 
coalition was then made? The people elect of God for 
His holy worship, mixed up with the heathen, to effect, 
as they hoped, the extinction of Jesus' Name from the 
annals of that time, for the Jews were expecting their 
Messiah, and they knew, that miracles of power and 
mercy must attend His mission to Zion. 



84 ADDRESS TO THE 

The descent of the Holy Ghost frustrated all their hasty- 
purpose; and five thousand Jews, joined the one hundred 
and twenty, to continue the Name of Jesus. 

Still the opposition raged on both sides. The Gosper 
was foolishness to the Gentiles, as scandal to the Jews. 

Alas! this is not all. The old serpent renewed his 
ancient work, and succeeded in beguiling the church from 
her simplicity that is in Christ, by enlisting some of her 
preachers who were acquainted with human science, in 
his service, to promulgate perplexities, or artful speech 
that " dazzled to blind," which is Satan's strong-hold, and 
its wall is spiritual pride. Quarrelling supported inno- 
vations, and image worship followed the sacrilege of 
mystifying the plain doctrines of the Cross, so that Satan 
triumphed in the darkening of the Gospel heaven, where 
neither sun or stars appeared to designate Christ as the 
Lord of the Sabbath Day, and the personal King of 
Zion. 

I turn away from this too dreadful theme, to gaze upon 
the delightful Mountain Scene that is a subject of prophecy 
in Solomon's Song of Songs. 0! Tabor! how glorious thy 
exaltation over all the mountains of myrrh, when the King 
in His beauty stood upon thy lofty brow, to declare His 
approaching Baptism in Blood at Jerusalem, unto the 
valiant heroes of His Law at the Red Sea and Carmel! 
Thou art in truth the hill of frankincense, for Christ in His 
Glory breathed from thy top the heavenly strains of Love 
that has no under term from Infinite and God Almighty! 

It is hard to kick against the records of our Lord's 
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by* four Jews whose lives were laid down for the tes- 
timony of the Gospel of Christ. Matthew, Mark, and 
Luke were not eye witnesses of His majesty on Tabor. 
Luke does not pretend that he ever saw Jesus as his fellow 
evangelists; but Luke had a perfect understanding of the 
whole matter; and he is the most precious historian of all; 
for he has given me a view of the tree of life, with the 
Holy Dove upon Him. At the margin of the tomb, is the 
root of mortality; but he is called Adam, which was (not is) 
the Son of God ; and to the verge of Heaven is Jesus 
exalted by baptism; but He is entitled by God Himself, 
"My Beloved Son; 5 ' and yet, Christ is the topmost Branch 
of the genealogical Tree, and He only is living. All the 
rest are dead, even Adam, which was the Son of God. 
Who shall inherit David's throne in the times of restitution? 
Not the dead surely. It is clear as noonday that from 
Seth to Christ the appointment of Divine rule is preserved, 
and David finds a resting place for the Ark, apart from 
Solomon. Nathan is the Gift of God. To Luke was 
made known the fellowship of the mystery of Godliness 
with David's house by Nathan; and this brings Jesus on 
Mount Tabor to pray as the Son of man, where the fashion 
of His face is altered, and He is pronounced the Beloved 
Son of God. 

Let us notice particularly that the countenance of Christ 
was not altered, but the fashion or expression, and the 
hue very likely; for Matthew states, that "His face did 
shine as the sun." In general He might appear only as 



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a weary traveller, a man of sorrows, or a lowly prophet ; 
but on Mount Tabor His face assumed the Brightness of 
God; and His raiment the light of Heaven. 

"And behold (says Matthew) there appeared unto them 
Moses and Eiias, talking with Him." Peter, James and 
John saw their Master's Glory, and listened to the con- 
ference He held with Moses and Elijah, as spectators only ; 
and after the vision closed, and as the Master accompanied 
His disciples from Tabor to the place where He had left 
His other apostles, He charged Peter, James, and John, to 
keep silence respecting it, until " the Son of man" was 
risen from the dead. 

Holy, blessed, and lofty subject of contemplation for a 
believing Jew, whose heart trembleth at the word of the 
Lord. Look at it again, and again. Repeat the words 
from Luke, "As He prayed!" Luke does not intimate that 
Peter, James, and John prayed. — Now I shall turn to the 
Visions of Isaiah. At the sixteenth verse of the fifty-ninth 
chapter, Adonai (the manifested Being) is represented as 
searching among the Jews for an intercessor, like Moses, or 
a holy man like Samuel; and there was none. When 
Jesus ascended Tabor to pray, there can be no doubt the 
burden of loneliness was heavy upon His lowly heart; but 
when He engaged in prayer as the Son of man, Heaven 
opened on His human soul the joy that should follow His 
Cross; and " as He prayed, the fashion of His countenance 
was altered;" and He was joined by Moses and Elijah, 
who spake of His decease which He should accomplish at 
Jerusalem. — (See Luke 9. 31.) 

It is written in your Law that two witnesses establish a 



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matter. In the case before you the number is doubled; 
for, beside Matthew, Mark, and Luke in their Gospels, 
Peter, who was an eye witness, wrote of this Glory about 
forty years afterward; and Peter was crucified for the 
Name of Christ, about one year later; and of this he had 
been apprized by his Divine Master, which seems to have 
drawn out the testimony; for, speaking to Christians of "the 
everlasting Kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus 
Christ," Peter assures them, that the Apostles had not 
followed cunningly devised fables;* and with a cruel death 
in prospect, Peter asserted that he desired Christians always 
to remember the Transfiguration Scene; and even more 
assiduously to attend and obey the Spirit of truth, who 
moved the prophets to foretell the personal return of the 
Lord. 

Let us review the sacred mission to Mount Tabor in Lower 
Galilee. "As He prayed," that countenance of sorrow, low- 
liness, humility, solemnity, holiness, submission, and love, 
was irradiated with Power of the Highest, and the Conque- 
ror's Joy. Even the seamless coat, that was woven by the 
Virgin mother, appeared as robes of ineffable Light, and 
heavenly splendour. 

"And behold two men, Moses and Elijah, appeared in 
Glory," and spake with Jesus of His crucifixion ! 

1 do not design a hypothetical method of testimony; and 
far less would I aim to develop the secrets of God in His pur- 
pose to deliver Zion by Jesus Christ, whom your fathers 
crucified. But, my lords, facts are in the power of faith, and 



* " Pious frauds." 



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Abraham, having embraced a son in his old age (according 
to Divine Promise), stretched out his confidence in God be- 
yond the valley of the shadow of death, and took the knife 
to slay his son. You, my lords, are a generation of witnesses, 
from age to age. In Egypt I see your door-posts and the 
side-posts of your dwellings are marked with the blood of the 
Lamb. So I view you at Calvary; and in all your disper- 
sions I discover the offspring of Jacob,* whose day of trouble 
seems to be very near. How strange ! that you my lords, 
are literal evidence to me, of the truth of A Book of books, 
which you reject, and call it false. Now, shall I say, that the 
mission of Elijah and Moses to Mount Tabor, is a subject of 
original prophecy; and the same answers to identify their 
personality in Jerusalem, when Anti-Christ obtains the king- 
dom by flatteries ? I do assure my lords, that supposition is 
absent from my argument at this crisis. 1 shall cite your 
attention to the pure sayings of EL ELHOE by Isaiah; and 
refer you to the transfiguration scene, for oral dispensation of 
the same to persons elect, according to the Oracles of truth. 

"Ye are my witnesses, saith the Lord;" (be careful, my 
lords. Examine the context,) "and my servant whom I 
have chosen/*' 

Now observe, that the crown upon our Lord's Manifesta- 
tion, was the oraculous seal upon His person, "This Is my 
beloved Son, hear ye Him.'* Observe, my lords, it is on 
record by four Jews. Three of them say, " a voice came out 
of the cioud;'* and Peter writes, "And this voice, which 
came from Heaven, we heard when we were with Him in 
the holy mount." — v. IS. 

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" The disciples then fell on their faces and were sore afraid." 

Moses and Elijah entered into the cloud: it is recorded by 
Luke that " they feared." 

I shall now take you to Horeb. Hear, Israel, hear the 
declaration to Moses, concerning you : 

" I will raise them up a Prophet 
From among their brethren, like unto thee (i. e. meek,) 
And will put my words in His mouth, 
And He shall speak unto them all that 
I shall command Him." — Deut. 18. 18. 

Moses was in the bright cloud on Mount Tabor, with 
Jesus. On Horeb Moses went into the midst of the cloud, by 
command of Adonai, to receive the Law and commandments 
for Israel. How peculiar is the analogy of the events at 
Horeb, to Messiah's Glory on Tabor, as He is addressed by 
the Remnant that stand upon the sea of glass; and how 
strong is my argument with opposers of literal interpretation 
of scripture, by this union of Horeb with Tabor. 

I return to Isaiah. In the forty-second chapter, the perfect 
Servant is addressed by the Holy Ghost ; and testimony of 
His mission in lowliness, is given summarily from " Behold 
the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world," 
to " the Isles shall wait for His Law," when Christ proclaims 
His own glory, and His word continues, by the Holy Ghost 
to Isaiah, in the forty-third chapter, to times subsequent to 
the transfiguration on Tabor, but in the original Glory, as 
God the Lord, even the manifested Being, which is in the 
second Psalm, Son; in Isaiah, Servant; in the Gospels, Son. 

Now let us read together Messiah's proclamation (by the 
voice from Heaven) to His two witnesses, and likewise to the 
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human nature, " the son of man," and remember, that my 
faith is in ONE GOD. 

Isaiah 43. 10. "Ye are my witnesses, saith the Lord, and 
my servant, whom I have chosen : that ye may know and 
believe me, and understand that I am He ; (reference Deut. 
7. 18, 15. 16, 17. 18 and 19 verses). 

10. "Before me there was no God formed:* 

Neither shall there be after me." (Ref.Deut. 32.39,40). 

11. "I, even I, am the Lord; 

And beside me there is no Saviour." 

12. " I have declared, and have saved when there was no 
strange god among you, therefore ye are my witnesses, saith 
the Lord, that I am God." 

When Israel went out of Egypt, 
The house of Jacob from a people 
of strange language, the Lord declared to Moses, that by lift- 
ing up his rod, the Red Sea should divide, so that the chil- 
dren of Israel should escape; and the same ordinance, 
" Stretch out thine hand," should overwhelm their enemies. 
How great the Salvation of that time; and there was no 
strange god among them. On the banks of the Red Sea 
your fathers sang unto the Lord, and Moses taught them to 
say, 

" The Lord is a man of war, 
The Lord is His Name." 
Moses could well remember this at Tabor ; and Elijah the 
reformation at Carmel, after the Lord answered his prayer, 
on Elijah's terms with Israel ; for when the people saw the 



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fire of the Lord, they all fell upon their faces, and they said, 
" The Lord, He is the God, 
The Lord, He is the God."— 1 Kings 18. 24, 39, 40. 

Then Elijah said, take the prophets of Baal, let not one of 
them escape ; and Elijah slew them all at the river Kishon. 
So the strange gods were all destroyed. 

I shall now return to Mount Tabor. Dr. Watts has re- 
hearsed in solemn verse the temple-scene of Jesus' lowly in- 
fancy, when the holy Mother brought the Lamb in her arms, 
to present Him unto the Lord, and for her cleansing she had 
two turtledoves. ! happy poverty of Mary, that insured 
the Riches of Glory for Him, whose infant features shone 
with the beauty of Heaven, and good old Simeon knew He 
was God's Salvation ; and aged Anna testified of Redemption 
by Mary's Holy child ! 

Moses and Elijah beheld Mary's son on Mount Tabor. 
" He shall be great" (said Gabriel to the lowly virgin of Da- 
vid's house) ; 

"And shall be called the Son of the Highest ! 

"And the Lord God shall give unto* Him the throne of 
His father David ; and He shall reign over the house of Jacob 
forever ; and of His kingdom there shall be no end." — Luke 
1. 32, 33. 

Neither Moses nor Elijah could glory in Christ as David's 
son, and heir to Mount Zion in the latter days only as a man. 
No, indeed. It was the Mystery, the Great Mystery, God 

* Christ took flesh and blood upon His Divine Nature. The flesh is for Da- 
vid's throne as King. The Blood was for atonement, and so the human life 
was the sacrifice. The resurrection confers honour and glory upon the Vail ; 
and the two witnesses could look in it, and see God. 



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manifested in the flesh, (whose kingship over Israel stood in 
GoDship over the universal creation, visible and invisible, 
whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or 
powers,) that they adored; and as they beheld Him the Bright- 
ness of the Father, the express Image of God, as Jesus upon 
earth rejected, Moses and Elijah might triumphantly exclaim, 

" Who in the Heaven can be likened unto the Lord ? 
Who among the sons of the mighty can be compared 
unto the Lord ?" — Psalm 89. 

I should not consider the testimony of Christ's two wit- 
nesses, in the time, times, and a half of the Lawless One, as 
golden oil, except it is poured out for the God of the earth. 
The Anti-Christian war is with Existence, which is Infinite, 
Eternal, Supreme, Incomprehensible, Immutable, all Glorious, 
and forever Glorious— ONE GOD ! 

Having transcribed for you the declaration of Adonai, 
to His two witnesses, I shall now represent the proclamation 
of unqualified hostilities against God, by the serpent's Head. 

See the proclamation of Anti-Christ, Isaiah 14. 13, 14 : 

" I will ascend into Heaven; 

" / will exalt* my throne above the stars of God ; 
" / will sitt also upon the mount of the congregation in 
the sides of the north ; 

« I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; 
"I will be like the Most High!" 

Signed, Abaddonapollyon. 

* The Devil calls Mount Zion his throne ! 
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What response is made by the Holy Ghost in the mouths 
of Christ's two witnesses? 

1. " Thou shalt be brought down to hell, 
" To the sides of the pit." 

2. "They that see thee (Isaiah 66. 24; Rev. 19. 20,) 
" Shall narrowly look upon thee, saying, 

« Is this the man (see 2 E. Thess. 2. 3,) 
" That did make the earth to tremble, destroyed cities, 
and made the world as a wilderness?" 

ffgp* " Thou art cast out of thy grave 

"Like an Abominable Branch!!" — Isa. 14. 15 — 19. 

For additional example, please attend to Deuteronomy, 
thirty-second chapter ! 

The Blessed Name, so sweet to the pardoned sinner, that 
mortal language fails of expression that is meet for its price, 
seems to be forgotten in that awful combat; and no marvel 
that Silence like the tomb shall prevail in Heaven for half 
an hour; for the earth, is full of blasphemy by the Devil's 
great wrath; and Jerusalem, the holy Mountain of the Lord 
of Sabaoth, is spiritually Sodom and Egypt, for your temple 
is the Asylum for his personal Head, the " king over all the 
children of pride." 

My lords, I invited you to Tabor; but we are now at Jerusa- 
lem; and my testimony rings with the bruit of her great Woe ! 

"Watchman, what of the night!" 
Answer: " The wild beast" has crept forth ; and two pro- 
phets, of whom it is written that " they are the two anointed 
ones, who stand up for the Lord of the whole earth," are 
prophesying, and they are clothed in sackcloth. 

" They have power to shut Heaven that it rain not in the 
days of their prophecy." — (See 1 Kings 17. 1.) 



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"And have power over waters to turn them to blood." 
(See Exodus 7. 15 — 25. Do read those eleven verses.) 

" And to smite the earth with all plagues, as often as they 
will." (Frogs, lice, flies, locusts, &c. &c.) 

"And if any man will hurt them, fire proceedeth out of 
their mouth, and devoureth their enemies; and if any man 
will hurt them, he must in this manner be killed." 

It is my intention to stand on the defensive for the Holy 
Book of "the Revelation of Jesus Christ;" but knowing that 
the general character of mankind is now marked with skep- 
ticism; and feeling that only the two-edged Sword can 
destroy its influence, I must rather use entreaty, that " you 
do yourselves no harm," seeing that 1 have not the power, 
nor right to command. I anticipate evil remarks from the 
captious unbeliever, which cannot touch my faith in Christ, 
but may injure persons whom I desire to serve. Should 
the unhallowed tongue of an apostate shoot bitter words 
against the peculiar qualities of Christ's two witnesses, even, 
as I am sure they appear, judgment and revenge; should 
he say, that Jesus has nullified His Gospel, and resorted 
after all to the fiery Law, I can point him to the lake of 
Genessaret, saying, behold about 7000 (horsemen and foot- 
man) of your ancestors, buried in the deep, by Christ's word 
Go. 

That the two witnesses may have occasion to use their 
delegated power, appears by the expressions in the last 
clause of the tenth verse ; but of this I see no certainty, since 
"torment" is not too strong a term to designate such a 
decisive testimony, as is represented by the united figures 
of golden Oil, and delivered in Sodom and Egypt, under the 
great woe ! 



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However that may be, Christ can refer men and devils 
to His Father's will, as it is written, " Thou shalt rule them 
with a rod of iron, thou shalt dash them in pieces like a 
potter's vessel." It is written that God ordaineth arrows 
for the persecutors; and who, for an enemy, can be com- 
pared to Anti-Messiah, whose image must be worshipped, 
on penalty of death, i. e. choose a violent death, or the fire 
that is never quenched. Happy, happy are ye two sons of 
Oil, that shall be able to support your testimony by the 
ancient wonders, long sealed up among the treasures of 
Creation's insulted Lord God ! ! ! 

N. B. See additional remarks on Tabor — and the con- 
nection with Christ's Day, in Note third, Appendix. 

^ ^fe ^f? 

Although my ability to comment on the holy Book of 
the Apocalypse is very small indeed, I may embrace the 
liberty, (as a gracious privilege,) to declare for a sacred 
certainty, its literal accomplishment, as a concise, yet entire 
prophecy of your Glory, even Christ Jesus, in His coming 
out of Heaven to reign, till He hath put all His enemies 
under His feet; and the last enemy that shall be destroyed 
is death."* 

I repeat my assertion of inability to comment on this 
Book of the Mystery of Mysteries, with propriety or skill 
adequate to its importance; but I cannot resist the impulse 
to reveal my understanding of its fulfilment as the Second 

* Paul, the great Apostle of the Gentiles, declared to Timothy that Christ 
hath abolished death. Happy they who understand the apostle by faith. The 
power of death (the Sin of Adam) Christ destroyed; and death itself at last 
must die. 



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Advent of my precious Saviour, involves its first, immediate, 
and chief concern. No candid Christian teacher, or chaste 
inquirer after pure prophetic truth, can possibly be scandal- 
ized by my announcement of this Revelation as the tap Root 
of faith that God gave it 5 for if the raised body of flesh and 
bones, is not Jesus Christ, who was received into Heaven, 
faith in the gift of Revelation is vain. If the words Jesus 
Christ stand on literal ground, the Blessed Apocalypse, 
represents His person in Heaven, His person in the air, His 
person on Mount Zion, as the tabernacle of God with men ; 
and likewise portrays all the great things He will do, and 
cause to be done for His people Israel. Only compare 
Isaiah 60 with Rev. 21. 22; and confess, it is enough. 1 do 
believe that this Book is Divine; and that into the mysteries 
of the kingdom of Heaven, a humble contrite believer may 
enter, by faithful study of the twenty-two chapters, hearing 
Christ, and keeping the things spoken of as only His, the 
Root and offspring of David, the Bright and Morning Star. 

As skin covers the human body, so are the nerves spread 
beneath; and on the latter, Blood (which is the life of the 
flesh) has a peculiar action ; but the nerves are a web of 
mystery; for their influence pierces to the soul, as well as 
the flesh; and we cannot define it. Of course God only can 
heal wounded nerves. Man cannot cure nervous disease. 
Ah! do I not know it! ! ! 

Mystery is an envelop for this Holy Book, and the holy 
angels delight therein. How quick they spread open 
golden wings to fly at command of Israel's Holy One ! It 
is easy for those pure spirits of fire to follow the burning 
wheels of God's dispensations; for the devil has no power 



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over them, in their vocation of ministry for the joint heirs 
with Christ of God. Adam's race are encompassed with 
his influence. A corporeal body like fallen man, a fleshly 
mind, a stony heart, are all in fashion of Satan's enmity 
against the Holy Mystery of Christ and of God. 

Now the action of Divine mysteries is on the Blood of the 
Lamb ; and the Book of the Revelation of Jesus Christ is 
explicit on behalf of its virtue, while the thing itself is veiled 
with holy mystery still. Look at it. The redeemed fall 
down before Him that sitteth on the throne, and confess to 
the Almighties, 

" Holy, Holy, Holy 
Lord God," as the Creator of all things for His pleasure; and 
the elders cast their crowns before the throne ; but when the 
Lamb stands in the midst of the throne, i. e. when the 
adopted nature of God's Secret is glorified by name of the 
Lion of Yah-hudi, the praise is given for redemption to God, 
by the Blood of the Lamb ; and Christ then stands in the 
centre of Unity with God the Father, and God the Spirit. It 
is the beauty of the Apocalypse ; and Judah's life is in it ; but 
he knows it not; for the pride of election hides his need of 
this Blood. 

Fallen man stumbles at every thing good or bad. The 
carnal mind as readily disowns Satan as God. The wily 
Serpent, in his encroachment on the spiritual spheres, influ- 
ences mortals to disbelieve his power as their adversary, and 
his office as calumniator, so, the Serpent beguiles at his will, 
and allures at his pleasure, poor souls away from the place 
of repentance, where streams the Life of God's provided 
Lamb, in full proof of the damnable nature of sin, which is 
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the sting of death. Nothing is so offensive to the natural (i. e. 
the nominal), man as entire indebtedness to a Curse for re- 
demption of Blessing. Most intimate and closely retained is 
this aversion in the heart of a Jew, who boasts of the oldness 
of the Letter, as his sufficiency, because he is not quickened 
together with Christ ; and dotes upon his original election, 
although his God saith " The soul that sinneth shall die." 
Conviction of personal interest in the original transgression is 
the last thing felt by a Jew. Even David the king, and Paul 
an apostle of Christ, were reduced very low previous to this 
exercise. In it Paul said, " sin revived, and I died." Happy 
result of the visitation of God's life commandment. Self was 
slain. The old man was crucified with Christ; and from 
that time Paul was in Christ a new creature. David's expe- 
rience came another way, than by religious madness, and 
self-righteous strife. Adultery, and murder to hide it, pre- 
ceded David's solemn declaration to God, "Behold I was 
shapen in iniquity, and in sin did my mother conceive me." 

"Behold Thou desirest truth in the inward parts; and in 
the hidden part thou shalt make me to know wisdom." 

The instant that a Jew is convinced of total loss in Adam, 
(see Genesis, third and fourth chapters), his refuge from des- 
pair is the Messiah ; but the idea of humiliation, suffering 
and death, as incumbent upon Israel's Hope, and unavoid- 
able in God's wise counsels, that thus it must be, is ever 
repelled with "not so Lord," by the Jew, until he is willing 
to be accounted nothing, less than nothing and vanity. This 
is a hard lesson, and the Cross in sight only imbitters his 
spirit. He is wounded with the wound of a cruel one ; for 
" what good or what profit shall my election be, seeing I am 



DISPERSED OF JUDAH. 99 

already dead to God by Adam's sin," is not suggested by the 
Spirit of Divine Power, but by the Devil. 

Humbling to the very dust, and straining upon the heart's 
core, is such convincement to a Jew, even that in respect of 
soul salvation, he is just on equality with a poor Goim who 
never had the Law written for him on Sinai's top, by the 
finger of God. ! my lords, could I command words for 
this communication, suitable even for my thoughts upon the 
subject, in place of a burdensome employment, I should ex- 
claim, happy me, chosen culler of Messiah's words for Israel. 

Do I say my thoughts are fit? I do not mean the motions 
of nature in me ; but the reasonings of the promised Teacher, 
the Spirit of Truth, whose evincive energy is divinely irre- 
sistible in reproving of sin, as the evil ushered into Adam, 
by the observing foe, (Nachash) instantly as God withdrew 
himself, 

" In the day thou eatest thereof, 
Thou shalt surely die !" 
A Jew convicted of sin as the sting of death, must feel more 
intense woe than a Gentile, on account of its opposite in the 
Law, which is sin's vehemence upon a quickened conscience, 
so, that " ! wretched man that I am" is the involuntary 
moan of his oppressed soul, as he views the grave ready for 
his silent dwelling ; for, aside from the Gospel, the grave is a 
ditch that swalloweth up, never to surrender its prisoners. 
David possessed Gospel faith ; and he said to the Lord, thou 
hast delivered my soul from the lowest hell, meaning im- 
prisonment in the grave after the first resurrection; for 
David's religion bound him to God manifested, and he said, 

" As for me, I will behold thy face in righteousness. 

" I shall be satisfied when I awake with thy likeness." 



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Now my lords, what can you say for your election in 
Abraham's name ? That he was the friend of God ? Is this 
a righteousness for you ? Do you claim help by Abraham's 
joy ? Is Isaac bound upon the altar, your surety ? Can you 
rejoice in Israel's victory with God, and call it yours, because 
of the adoption ? Or do you confide in your possession of 
the Sabbath Day, and the annual celebration of deliverance 
from the iron furnace ? Let me assure you, that by Abra- 
ham's faith, your unhappy union with the first man, Adam, 
is not dissolved. In the fall of Adam you stand in the field 
of aliens from your original commonwealth ! double misery ! 
And the aliens, who truly, and heartily, and humbly confess 
to Abraham's original faith, stand upon your ground, the 
promises, which are all yea and amen in Christ, unto the 
Praise of God the Father. 

Abraham confessed to God, the Lord God, that he was 
but dust and ashes. God was Isaac's Fear ; and Jacob was 
a worm. The Sabbath is Messiah's Rest, and the Passover 
a type of Israel's deliverance from* Anti-Christ, by the 
Lamb, in character of Judah's lion at the Great Day, as well 
as the sign that Justice is satisfied with all who are marked 
with the powerful atoning Blood. 

If, in the Books of Exodus and Leviticus, you realize only 
superiority to all other human beings upon earth, or in the 
world of spirits, I would entreat of you to study well the 
11th, 12th, 13th, 14th, 16th, 20th, and 25th chapters of the 
Kingdom Book (Numbers), and compare the dispensation of 

* Pharaoh (The Destroyer), that " knew not Joseph," is a very remarkable 
type of Anti-Christ (as the latter is Abaddon), who will first essay to be your 
Praise, and to keep you for his slaves. 



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the form, and the administration of the laws of the Sanctuary, 
with Israel's conduct, at Kibroth-hattavah, Miriam and Aaron 
at Hazeroth, ten of the land surveyors at Paran, with the 
result of their slander against Canaan, even a horrible revolt 
of the whole Assembly from Adonai, which proved a mortal 
sin, and produced the decree, that only one of the royal tribe, 
and one of the increase of Israel's house, that saw the mira- 
cles in Egypt, at the Red Sea, and God's Glory at Sinai, 
should enter the promised land. 

The rest of the men of war, and all the tribe of Levi (not 
excepting Moses, Aaron and Miriam), died in strange lands, 
called by the Lord, the wilderness, or Mount Hor, or Nebo. 
It is true that children born in the desert, were so ordained to 
represent their fathers, that Aaron's house afforded servants 
for the holy Ark in crossing Jordan to set that type of Christ, 
as Lord of all the earth, on God's hallowed ground ; but 
their ancestors, who "saw God, and did eat and drink" (i. e. 
survived the sight), fell in the wilderness ; and their dust is 
trodden by the feet of beasts of burden to this day. 

Your election of God, to be unto Him a peculiar people, is 
fixed upon the oath of Adonai which he sware unto Abra- 
ham on the Mount of the Lord (Moriah, "Bitterness of the 
Lord"), and Abraham died, it appears of old age; for there is 
no mention of disease upon him or his son Isaac. Of Jacob 
it is written that sickness preceded his dissolution ; but his 
death was in the same order with his own father, and his 
father's father : i. e. he yielded up the Ghost, and was gath- 
ered unto his people. The bodies of men, for whose "sakes 
you are beloved," are under the sentence pronounced by 
your King upon Adam, the first man, in the nominal day of 
his offence, and executed toward the close of a Day of years, 



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"Unto dust shall thou return;" for (by disobedience), 
Adam was so changed, that unto him, the Lord God said, 

"Dust thou art!" 
What a ruin ! " A living Soul" become as dust, and yet 
moving about, an insect, or a worm ! 

Of the spiritual death, (simultaneous with eating the for- 
bidden fruit) Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob were as neces- 
sarily partakers in their natural birth, as in the other at close 
of an earthly pilgrimage; but it pleased God to visit them in 
a very peculiar way, and to distinguish them by the freeness 
of His Grace, and the affluency of His Love; not because 
they walked with God as Enoch, or were honest as Noah, 
or true as Lot. It is simply recorded, that Adonai said 
unto Abram, recounting his descent from Shem (renown) 
« I will bless thee" — 

" I — WILL — BLESS THEE !" twice seven letters (Eng- 
lish), four distinct vocal sounds, and one short paragraph, 
that sweetly harmonizes with the declaration to Moses from 
the cloudy pillar, in which Adonai descended to Mount 
Horeb : 

" I will be gracious to whom I will be gracious : 

"I will show mercy on whom I will." 
If the calling of Abraham out of Uz (fire) of the *Chal- 
dees, is the starting point of your elevation, surely, my lords, 
the deepest humility becomes you, and perfect abasement, in 
view of the rock from whence you were hewn ; and the 
hole of the pit whence ye are digged ; for Abraham was a 
Gentile. He was called to circumcision, not chosen as Israel 
in circumcision. 

* Spoilers, or devils. But. Con. 



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To prove that Abraham's flight from Nimrod's dominions, 
was the prelude to your national renown, as God's inherit- 
ance upon earth, I shall quote the exhortation of your Holy 
One, to regard Abraham as a very humble servant, and his 
wife Sarah, a lowly handmaid of Christ. And let it be un- 
derstood, that a determination of God, to exalt human beings, 
is permanently fixed in Himself, the Righteousness, as well 
as Peace of Israel. 

" Harken unto me, ye that follow after righteousness, &c. 
" Look unto Abraham your father, 
" And to Sarah that bare you : 
" For I called him alone, 
" And blessed him." 

Now see. A persecuted,* childless Gentile is commanded 
to undertake a pilgrimage, in (what we should style) old age; 
for it is written that "Abram was seventy-and-five years old 
when he departed out of Haran." The called one obeyed. 
"He went out not knowing whither he went."t Your 
election was concerned in that submissive act of a perfect 
gentleman, whose polished mind delighted in the Authority 
of his Holy Superior General, the manifested Being; and 
while the name of Terah's eldest son occupies five letters, 
and two syllables, your collateral right is pre-eminent to the 
utter exclusion of all strangers and foreigners beneath the 
sun. Abram is your high Father, a type, a distinguished 
type of your Messiah, whose call out of His Father's bosom, 
to visit our wretched world, was to the promised land, and 

* I observe my Master's rule, See Matt. 10. 23. 
t Paul to the Hebrews 11. 8. 



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for the chosen people, as heirs to that sacred field of the 
Most High. 

But, we are not to forget that your rejection of the glorious 
Anti-type, has shaken tremendously your separate concern ; 
and your refuge is not in Abram's call, or his obedience of 
faith, even to the extremity, but in the Infinite Affirmation 
of your Holy One to the father of many nations. Now we 
do know that Ishmael and Keturah's sons are recognized 
in the renewal of the covenant; and the seal (which is the 
oath) bears an immense expression of grace, even Blessing 

for all nations, in Abraham ? Nay, in Abraham's seed. 

Is Isaac intended ? Nay. God blessed Isaac for the sake of 
Abraham, God's servant ; (see Gen. 26. 24); but the Lord 
did not say to Isaac that in him all nations should be 
blessed. 

In your Messiah, my lords, is this covenant sealed by 
Divine Oath; and upon the mount* of holy prophecy, whose 
pearl topt is the glory of etherial spheres, a Gospel believer, 
when his feet are steady in the Cross marked path, may 
stand in Abraham's sandals, with the mantle of Elijah upon 
his arm, to survey the height and depth, the length and 
breadth of Christ's love to Adam's lost race, especially 
Israel. In the verdant fields! of prophetic exhortation, a 
soul that is enamoured with Christ, "as a Lily among 

* The birth — and all onward to the death of Christ ; and His resurrection 

and ascension. 

t The second Advent, with ALL Power (in the Glory of the Father, in the 
Glory of the Son of Man, and the Glory of holy angels), to reign Lord God 
Omnipotent. 

X Restoration of the tribes, city, land, &c. &c. 



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thorns/' or as the Glory of Lebanon, and the excellency of 
Carmel, will delight to walk by faith, even in the night, 
while scorners are drunk in their tents of pride. In these 
pastures (now all white to harvest) the Blessed Saviour 
walks with His disiples in Spirit, as once in person He led 
His little flock through the corn-fields of Galilee; and to 
every soul that seeketh the Lord, to all that desire a right- 
eousness that will bear inspection of the Lamb's seven eyes 
of flame, when He cometh to judge the world, our Re- 
deemer saith, 

" Look unto Abraham," &c. Not as your righteousness ; 
but as a specimen of trust in me, God's provided Lamb; and 
remember that Abraham had no righteousness to spare. 
His faith in me was the gift of God; and I charged it to the 
account of righteousness. I set it down for that against the 
Day, when I shall judge the secrets of men's hearts as God ; 
and my servant Abraham, shall sit down in the Kingdom of 
God, as it is written, "the just shall live by his faith." 

It is impossible for man in his natural state, to appreciate 
the grace of faith toward the great exhorter in Isaiah 51 and 
52 chapters. No marvel that the Holy Ghost cries, " Who 
hath believed our doctrine ;" for how can they believe in 
Him of whom they have not heard? The Redeemer of 
Israel is not declared in the Talmud. Its inculcations tram- 
ple on Divine truth: and educate the soul for everlasting 
woe; and yet the masters call them "good wine." I deny 
this; because their grapes are not gathered in the Lord's 
Vinyard. Strong drink is a fitter term for the marvellous 
lies recorded bv the Fabulists, whose condemnation is 
echoed from Ebai to Sinai in thunders seven to one ; for 
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they have poisoned the simple with the cruel venom of asps: 
" Cursed be he that removeth his neighbour's land-mark." 
u Cursed be he that causeth the blind to wander out of the 

way." 

" Cursed be he that confirmeth not all the words of this 
covenant." 

And what is the substance of the Covenant ? What is the 
sum of the agreement between God and the children of Israel? 

1. On Israel's part : 

« Thou hast avouched the Lord (The Manifested Being) 
this day to be thy God : 

" And to walk in His ways : 
And to keep His statutes : 
And His commandments : 
And His judgments : 
And to harken unto His voice!" 

2. On the part of Adonai, the Anointed, now hear, 
Israel : 

" And the Lord hath avouched thee this day, to be His 
peculiar people, as He hath promised thee, and that thou 
shouldest keep all His commandments : 

"And to make thee high above all nations which He hath 
made, in praise, in name, and in honour : 

" That thou mayest be a holy people, unto THE LORD, 
thy God, as He hath spoken." 

Comment is unnecessary. 

I return to your original position outside the gate, man by 
man. "'Thy first father hath sinned." — Isaiah 43. Is this 
an accusation against the elect nation ? I answer according 
to Job, who seemed to contend with God, while pursued by 



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Satan, if you have covered your transgressions as Adam, by 
imputing them to another, if you hide iniquity in your bosom 
by impenitence and unbelief, it is a direct allegation of Mes- 
siah that you are with Adam outside, and not with Abraham 
on the holy mountain. Moreover, the Lord adds the dread- 
ful evil I have before noticed. 

" And thy teachers have transgressed against me. 

" Therefore I have profaned the princes of the sanctuary ; 
and have given Jacob to the curse, and Israel to reproaches." 

My lords, do you not dread death in such a state ? Put 
back on Adam dead in trespasses and sins ! Yes. Broken 
off from God after baptism in the cloud and in the sea, in- 
volved in Adam's guilt which you have adopted by rejection 
of the woman's Seed ? In denying the Blessed Jesus, you 
deny your God ; and the great Stone shall be a witness 
against you ; for whether you believe or disbelieve, the Dis- 
pensation of the Gospel has and does forbid you to say " the 
fathers have eaten the sour grape," &c. "But every one 
shall die for his own iniquity." " He that believeth not shall 
be damned." 

The woman brought the Lamb into the temple, to present 
Him to the Lord. That Babe represented the perfection of 
innocence in helplessness ; but the Holy Ghost by the mouth 
of Simeon and Anna, confessed that He was God's Salvation, 
and the Anointed of Adonai; and Simeon said, "Let me de- 
part in peace." Precious saint! He held in his arms the 
Lamb of God, that taketh away the sin of the world; and 
was baptized into Christ by the Spirit that brought him into 
the temple, so that he put on Christ by faith, as Israel's 
Glory, and prayed for release from this tiresome age. Pre- 



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vious to that joyful morn, when Mary brought God's pro- 
vided Lamb into the temple of the Lord, Simeon had received 
a divine communication that interested him beyond every 
thing else at that period; for there lacked exactly the number 
of years from a Jubilee, to constitute the proper age of David's 
Son to gather Israel, and comfort Zion, so that Simeon waited 
for Him, and discerned His cross, as preparation for Israel's 
rest. Christ was then thirty-three days old, as an infant of 
days, in Simeon's arms; but the latter confessed to Him within 
the Vail, saying, ADONAI, now let thy servant depart in 
peace ; for mine eyes have seen Thy Salvation (The Lamb 
of God), and this body is for a Sign that shall be spoken 
against, that thou mayest expose the depths of Adam's fall ; 
and Thou, Adonai, in this flesh shall condemn sin, which is 
the sting of death. 

Simeon was eminently favoured of God; and I view his 
state as in spiritual advance of David and the prophets, be- 
cause, in the temple of the Lord, he held in his arms (both 
of flesh and of faith) the seed of the woman that shall bruise 
the Serpent's Head. Happy man ! thus to know the Glo- 
rious Sheckinah, hid in the flesh that came down from Hea- 
ven, and is given for the life of the world ! Simeon could 
then exclaim, " my flesh shall rest in hope f for he had seen 
and embraced The Lord's Anointed ! He had eternal life ; 
and Christ will raise him up at the last day. Simeon sleeps; 
but Solomon is dead ! You, my lords, are in the road to 
death ; for your confidence is outward to all extent, in the 
three main divisions of Judaism at this time. The Pharisees, 
that gather for themselves from the Talmud, mint, anise, and 
cummin for offerings, and lade their souls with thick clay or 



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dead prayers, are set on rebuilding the temple, and offering 
animal sacrifice. These believe in the resurrection of the 
body and a future state, that is not subject to change. How 
can these get along with the Sadducees ? " Death is in the 
pot!" With the party who prefer waiting for a Captain, 
Pharisees who worship the Talmud, can feel no union. In 
every division there may be faces, set toward Jerusalem, 

believing in Solomon's prayer ! at the dedication of the 

holy and beautiful house ! Must I say, that prayer is null 
and void, by the death of Christ, and that those worshippers 
are dead, their bones are dry, they are kept on earth for tes- 
timony that God is true? 

Do the Jews not know that David was a prophet? See 1 
Chron. 28. 9, the last clause very positive. 

" If thou forsake Him, 
He will cast thee off forever !" 

Is God the maker of fire? Shall it not fulfill His Word? 
Psalm 148. 8. The head of gold, and the iron feet, what 
have they done ? 

The fortieth and forty-first verses of Leviticus, chapter 
twenty-sixth, may be considered by the Dispersed as their 
bon chief, or capital possession; but I must say nay, nay, my 
lords ; except you confess, blessed is He that cometh in the 
Name of Adonai, (and this is The Holy Ghost) ; you cannot 
fulfill the conditions ; for resistance of Divine Testimony is 
your national, your social, your personal, and mortal iniquity, 
even perverseness and injustice to your God. I am bound 
to testify to you, this day, as in sight of the Lord Most High, 
that no prayer of Solomon, or statute in the Law, no word 



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of the prophets, or intercession of angels,'* can do aught at 
present in your favour. I do solemnly hold forth to you the 
prayer of Christ, in the first dreadful hour of His ignominious 
agonies, as your original conservative on which it is right for 
me to rest my faith, that Israel is forgiven in God's heart ; 
and Christ exalted, is Israel's Prince of Peace. 

" Father ! forgive ! them ! ! !" Shall it ever cease to sound 
on high, where sits the Royal Jew possessed of immortality ? 
— Yes, when Anti-Christ is worshipped in the temple, by two 
parts of the assembly that convene at Jerusalem to establish 
a government after the pattern of a Democracy. When 
Moriah rings not with Hosanna to the Son of David ; or as 
at present with Hamout, God's prophet, and one God, but 
Huzza for our Deliverer, worship Him all ye gods, and swear 
by His name, all ye people. 

Then the intercessions of Christ for the generation that 
crucified Him, shall cease. He is the Master of the house of 
Israel, that riseth up, and shutteth mercy's door. He is the 
Lion of Judah, that roars mightily on His habitation. " He 
will come with fire, and with His angels like a whirlwind, to 
render His anger with fury, and His rebukes with flames ; 
and the slain of the Lord shall be many." "Who may 
abide the Day of His coming ? Who can stand when He 
appeareth ? Who shall dwell with the devouring fire ? Who 
shall dwell with everlasting burnings?" Not the haughty, 
and the proud ! They will be ground to powder by the 
rejected Head-stone, the Rock of offence, in the Day of God. 

* I am informed that the person that sounds the ram's horn on the day of 
Atonement, invokes for Israel the aid of six angels; and one is to declare their 
merits, and eonfound Satan by their sound of the cornet. Alas ! alas ! 



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Ill 



Pride is styled by the learned the master sin ; and first 
born of the Devil. This resolve by theologists is not dis- 
countenanced by the Lexicon; for "an inordinate love of 
self" is — Idolatry ; — and amounts to worship of the author, 
which is Satan, woman's primal foe. No people under the 
heavens of the Lord, have been exposed to this original evil 
like the Jews. Plucked as a brand out of the unhallowed 
fires kindled by Nimrod (the Rebel), their favoured progeni- 
tor appears like a Branch from Eden's mystic tree, blooming 
blossoms, budding almonds, bearing pomegranates, and the 
first ripe figs, all in a moment, by vital favour of Eden's 
Lord. Abraham has no equal in all the holy Books, until 
we come to Jordan, Capernaum, Jacob's well, Gethsemane, 
and Golgotha. His humble acquiescence to the requirement 
of his covenant God at Beersheba, after communicating the 
ineffable Name, so that Abraham worshipped the everlasting 
God, by that Glory as Mediator, is clearly evidential of per- 
fect love to his Redeemer, and godly sorrow for the necessity 
of sacrifice. It may be said of Abraham, that he so loved 
God, as to give his beloved son for a burnt offering ; and with 
such heavenly devotion in manner, that he is called 
" The Friend of God." James 2. 23. 

"Abraham is our father," said the Jews to Christ, who 
declared to them that they were in bondage to sin. Now 
one might suppose that shame would have covered them. 
No indeed. The Jews claimed justification by Abraham, 
because he was greatly beloved by the Lord ; and gloried in 
their separation from the heathen by him. "If ye were 
Abraham's children" (said the Blessed One) "ye would do 
the works of Abraham." 



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Pride, my lords, has budded afresh upon the branches that 
are broken off from the good Olive (which is covenant 
Grace), since A. I). 1844; and I fully believe the fruit will 
ripen in the flower : i. e. a short work is to be made on the 
earth. The top stone of Pride is Anti-Christ, and he is to 
enter the temple amid shoutings of " Who is like the Beast ? 
Who is able to make war with him ?" 

What is the report of God the Spirit concerning Judah and 
his companions at the time of Christ's coming to judge the 
nations, and rebuke many people ? 

" Their land is full of idols !" 
And what is the command to Judah at that crisis ? 

" Enter into the rock, and hide in the dust, for fear of the 
Lord, and for the Glory of His Majesty, when He ariseth to 
shake terribly the earth." 

And what is the determination of God ? 

" The day of the Lord shall be upon every one that is 
proud and lofty." 

"And they shall be brought low." 

It is really wonderful that pride should retain such a cur- 
rency among the people that have been so severely punished 
for it. Has not God repeatedly demonstrated His utter 
abhorrence of pride, sparing not even Moses, David, or the 
royal reformers of David's house on its rearing a head by 
them against Divine humility ? Seventy thousand men were 
swept off by pestilence in three days, for David's sin in num- 
bering the people (a work that occupied Joab for nine 
months). Jerusalem "was threatened; but David humbled 
himself very low before the Lord, saying, 

" Lo ! I have sinned, and done wickedly : 
" But these sheep, what have they done ? 



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" Let thine hand, I pray thee, be against me, 
" And against my father's house." 
By the pride of Hezekiah, David's throne received a severe 
blow ; and Josiah's finished it. If God judgeth the righteous, 
what shall be the fate of impenitent and hardened sinners ? 

Haughty pride is the distinguished characteristic of all the 
scriptural types of Anti-Christ, and they were heathens. 

"Who is the Lord that I should obey His voice." — Pha- 
raoh. 

" I defy the armies of Israel this day." — Goliah. 

" Who are they among all the gods of the countries that 
have delivered their country out of my hand, that the Lord 
should deliver Jerusalem out of my hand." — Senacherib. 

" Is not this great Babylon that / have built for the house 
of the kingdom, by the might of my power, and for the 
honour of my majesty?" — Nebuchadnezzar. 

Egypt, Philistia, Assyria, and Babylon, have furnished 
examples of warning to Israel of their exposedness to Satan's 
devices by his first born sin, kingly pride ; but alas ! the 
enemy hath power to disguise his wrath, and still he broods 
for Jerusalem's children that judgment, 

" Woe unto them that are wise in their own eyes, 
"And prudent in their own sight." 

Of all the heads visible on Satan's darling first born, sexual 
pride is the meanest; and certainly not the least dangerous 
to the Jews. This sin is not behind infidelity grown up into 
atheism ; and every man that is tempted to follow it, (I say 
tempted), is very far off from the ground of moral sense and 
truth, while those that glory in it, do assuredly mock at the 
finger of God. 

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" Honour thy father and thy mother." How can a man 
honour his father, if he pretends to believe that his mother 
has no soul? How can he honour his mother, if he despises 
God's praise in her mouth ? Let such men read Hannah's 
Psalm ; and then ask some Christian women to explain it. 
Let them consider that woman is the Lord God's agent to 
effect Satan's ruin. Let them remember that woman is first 
(of human beings) to confess the truth. On redemption's 
holy ground, she is ever the chosen figure ; and the Holy 
Scriptures exhibit her as the favourite plant of grace divine. 
See Eve — Sarah — Rebecca — Rachel — Miriam — Deborah — 
Hannah — Ruth — Huldah, and Esther. 

Eve was worth preserving. Formed by the Hand (Spirit) 
of the Lord God, in the holy place. Not of dust of the 
ground; but of a living soul. A small piece of that Noble 
tabernacle, it is true ; but sufficient for Him who fed five 
thousand men (beside women* and children), with five 
loavest and two small fishes. As the Spirit glorified God's work 
with cold clay, we may suppose that His labour with a piece 
of His own Life is more precious, and more spiritual ; for in 
Adam that life governed the dust it quickened, until he fell; 
and in the cool (i. e. eve) of the day in which he sinned and 
was judged, Adam confessed that his wife was the mother of 
all living. This is prophecy uttered by a deadj man. Adam 
revives by grace that is only bestowed upon any man 

* Perhaps ten thousand women. 

t In Jerusalem a loaf is about equal to a two-penny English Roll. 

X The Spirit of God seems to decline separation from His dear saints, even 
while they are dead. Samuel prophesied to Saul and Elisba's bones pro- 
phesied, by a figure of the resurrection. 



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through the Bruiser of Satan's head ; and He is the woman's 
Seed ! This is Christ, who is promised to David by Oath of 
God, that He shall reign forever. 

The Scriptures of the prophets testify of Christ, in various 
forms, or figures, which are understood by faith. Two sepa- 
rate Advents are foretold ; and the titles and emblems in use 
for each are consonant with the works assigned to Him in 
either dispensation, whether of Mercy to man, or Justice to 
God. Both Advents are literal by the Spirit ; and as in one 
the heavens drop down Righteousness, so in the other, earth 
opens, and brings forth Salvation. 

In the first Advent, your Excellent One, is likened to 
"a dew from the Lord, and showers upon the grass, that 
tarrieth not for man, nor waiteth for the sons of men." 
— Mic. 5. 6. How often was this prophecy revived in the 
literal movements of Christ in His lowly day : sometimes by 
miracles that defied sickness, death, devils, or scarcity of 
food ; and at others, the power of wicked rulers to destroy 
His sacred person, or the devices of a throng of the people 
to make Him King. By His miracles He proved Himself a 
dew from the Lord, and as showers upon the grass; and 
every other act, evinced as He said, that He received not 
testimony from man. 

While I consider that the sufferings of Christ (from the 
manger to the Cross) compose the dew, and as I reflect upon 
His tears; and gaze on the return beams of joy on Martha's 
face, or marvel at the long-spun unbelief of the Jews, a 
deep consciousness that every drop from His lowly eye, was 
distilled from the heart of Israel's Jealous, sin-loathing God, 
extorts from my soul a double anguished Cry : 0! my sins ! 



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mysitis! 0! the guilt of apostate Christendom! 0! the un- 
belief, and varied infidelity of the Jews! How doth iniquity 
abound every where among backsliders and ungodly impeni- 
tent children and youth, while believers in the kingdom are 
sleeping for sorrow, surrounded by clouds and gathering 
darkness, portentous of the great tribulation that must pre- 
cede the Glory ; and is likened to a continuous whirlwind 
from the Lord. 

While I thus testify of these things, I certainly know my 
own unworthiness, for the rod of correction prevents my 
sleeping as do others. Old age, sickliness, and poverty, are 
as goads to my soul, and the instructions of scripture are as 
nails, which fasten conviction upon me, that covenant grace 
is at the end of the rod ; for it is written, " Whom the Lord 
loveth He chasteneth so I walk in the midst of trouble 
undismayed by the rough surface of my lonely way, calling 
upon the Lord Jesus, to keep my feet from falling, and my 
soul from death. 

As to the valley of the shadow of death, I suppose few 
persons have contemplated that issue from the present to 
another life, more than I ; for I have been led near its bor- 
ders for many years of sickliness and sorrow; and repeatedly 
shaken just by its obscure gates, for admonition, or for trial 
of my faith in death's immortal Plague, and the Grave's 
mighty Destroyer. I shall inform my lords, the Jews, that 
not only my sin in Adam, and all my own guilt, were laid 
on Christ ; but 

" He died for me and so I have only to sleep in Jesus, 
when God pleases to divorce me from cumbrous clay. I 
am not surprised that death should appear so terrible to 



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Jews of the Christian age. Their separation from God, by 
rejection of the Gospel, is the cause. You are broken off 
from your Messiah, who only hath immortality and dwelleth 
in Light unapproachable by man. No son or daughter of 
Adam's race, can come to the Father, but by Christ. If a 
specialty might be adduced, I would assign it to the Jews, 
for whom He came into the world, and was a Judean, a 
Nazarite, and an Israelite in whom there was no guile. ! 
what a mercy is it indeed that Jesus changeth not ; for only 
to His intercessions are you indebted for the preservation of 
your name in the Book of God. Moses at Kadesh Barnea 
was a type of Christ ; and Moses obtained the promise of a 
remnant only ; just one house of all the tribe of Judah, that 
left Egypt ; and the children born in the wilderness ! It is 
indispensable for the Jews to study the scripture character of 
their Messiah ; and to know for a sacred certainty, that the 
Manifested Existence is your God ; and that the Manifest- 
ation in flesh is on high, pleading with His Father for the 
tribes of Jacob ; and your Messiah is ever declaring to you, 
by His angel, 

" I AM The Lord : 

I change not ; 

Therefore ye sons of Jacob 

Are not consumed." 
! my lords, if you venerated the original prophecies of 
the scripture, as you do the Talmud ; and regarded your 
ancient reformers as devotedly as you follow blind leaders, 
your heads would be clear on " the fulness of time" set for 
Gentile dominion over the Mountain and land of the Lord. 
Does it not appear very strange that the captivity of Moriah, 



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and the dispersion of Jndah, should occupy three times the 
space of time that was afforded to the four great monarchies 
of the heathen ? Depend on what I now say ; for it is true ; 
whenever the vail is removed, whether in godly sorrow, or 
full despair, the Jews shall instantly see and understand, 
that Herod the great was an enemy, or Anti-Christ, that must 
be removed by the coming of David's appointed heir into the 
world, even the Roman world ; and his horrid edict, con- 
sequent on testimony of the wise men of the east, doubtless 
was the means of bringing his mortal end; for such a shock- 
ing assault upon helpless infancy, forbid his acceptance by 
the Jews. 

At the birth of Christ, Herod (an Idumean) had full pos- 
session of Judea by decision of the Roman senate ; and the 
Advent of Christ was imperatively necessary at that very 
juncture; for the instant that Herod was accepted by the 
Jews, the staff of royalty belonged to Esau, and Jacob's Star 
must be visible in the horizon of God's Land, previous to 
such apostacy, or Israel's dying words of prophecy for the 
last days, prove null, void, and false ; and Israel's Hope be 
lost ! ! ! 

Covenant obligation, Infinite Goodness, Divine Longsuffer- 
ing, and everlasting Mercy, secured the sceptre, until inspired 
and Heaven directed men from a far country, sounded in 
Herod's ears at Jerusalem, the rise of Jacob's Star on a be- 
nighted world. It appears that Jabbok is the record of a 
scene vivid in the Divine mind forever ; and the name of 
Israel becomes a collateral security for dominion and glory ; 
but we are to bear in mind the sacred order of God's acts. 
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darted his earliest ray in sight of Keturah's sons, who were 
exiles from Canaan by the decision of Abraham, who sent 
them away to the east country, oat of Isaac's way, the sole 
proprietor of the Holy Land, by promise of God to his father. 

This shows that God respected Keturah's sons; and that 
they were just persons who came with the Star to Jerusalem, 
is visible by their willingness to worship the King of the 
Jews. The prophecy of Isaiah (c. 60. 3 — 7) that displays 
Zion's full glory, takes notice of their offerings, as a first rudi- 
ment of grace foretold upon the Gentiles; and those men at 
the feet of your infant King, are a most happy figure of the 
full surrender, and devotion of all nations to the orthodox 
church at Mount Zion, in the Era of Rest, or the Sabbath of 
the whole world, i. e. 1000 years' Millennium ! 

According to my testimony, your rejection of Jesus, the 
Christ, has lengthened your captivity (Moriah) about seven 
centuries beyond all the interest upon times of the iron feet ; 
and it does appear that in A. D, 1849, the Dispersed of Judah 
are more tempted than ever to bind on themselves the cords 
of their national grief, opposition to the true God, and His 
Christ. What is to be done ? Holy Lord Almighty, as thou 
didst command Israel by Moses, to flee from the tents of Ko- 
ran, Dathan, and Abiram, so may thy Spirit call out the rem- 
nant that are elect for an escape, from the Babel of Talmud- 
ism, and from the suburbs of Atheism. Thou wilt do this, 
Righteous Father, for the sake of Thy oath and Thy love 
to the fathers, for whose sakes, stiffhecked, blinded, truth- 
perverting children of Israel, are beloved ! 

I shall not conclude this faithful Address, without notice of 
a current saying of your Rabbis, that Christ altered the Law. 



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My lords, I deny the allegation in sum toto. Christ did not 
alter the Law. He expounded it upon the principles of per- 
fect godliness. 

Do the Jews confess to the Law as a rule of conduct, while 
their forms of religion are copied from the Talmud ? If there 
is allowed credit for English words, the meaning of Religion 
is binding to God. Ceremonies cannot effect this great ob- 
ject ; and Christ, who came to establish the Law, never ad- 
verted to carnal ordinances for a rule of worship ; but said 
" God is a Spirit ; and they that worship Him, must worship 
in spirit and truth." 

Of the Ten words written upon two tables of stone, by the 
finger of God, Christ spake on the Mountain (I suppose Ta- 
bor, as he then chose twelve preachers) in His most blessed 
explanation of the Divine calling to Israel, His elect, unto 
perfect Love; and upon this theme, the Blessed One spake 
with authority and command: 

" Think not that I am come to destroy the Law or the 
prophets ; 

" I am not come to destroy, but to fulfill. 

" For verily I say unto you, till heaven and earth pass, one 
jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be 
fulfilled." 

Then the Blessed spake of the second table, being least, 
because it relates to man : 

"Whosoever, therefore, shall break one of these least com- 
mandments, and shall teach men so, he shall be called least 
in the Kingdom of Heaven, but whosoever shall do and teach 
them, the same shall be called great in the Kingdom of 
Heaven." 



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The exposition of Christ, and His judgment upon the sta- 
tute, " Thou shalt not. kill," clearly show His Divine Autho- 
rity, also the design of the Covenant, that it must be covered 
by the Spirit of God, and hid in man's heart till the soul is 
free from sin. 

Look at the immense breadth afforded to those four mono- 
syllables, by the meek and lowly Saviour of the world. 

1. Anger in the heart without cause, not expressed, is a 
mortal sin. 

2. The utterance of a reproachful word, is violation of 
peace, that calls for judgment by the council. 

3. To say to a brother, thou fool, exposes to hell fire. 

With the close doctrine of Christ before me, I do not mar- 
vel that Mount Sinai was encompassed with blackness and 
darkness and tempest, at the giving of the Law, which is an 
emanative Righteousness, a transcript of Divine Justice, and 
a memento of God's opinion of the people to whom He sent 
it, concluding them under sin, that His mercy might be known 
in their election to holiness. 

As to the seventh commandment, ("Thou shalt not com- 
mit adultery,") Christ expounded it by the Law of the Spirit, 
so that God only can judge. The actual offence is noticed in 
the Priest's Law Book, as a mortal sin ; and the adulterer 
and adulteress were to be put to death ; but God begins with 
the heart, and His anathema is on the heart, therefore did 
Christ make that blessed declaration to Nicodemus, "Except 
a man be born again, he cannot see the Kingdom of God;" 
and to sweeten this strong cup, Jesus presented His mission 
to save the world. By the brazen serpent lifted up, the peo- 
ple looking on it were healed of the serpent's bite, so by the 
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Cross of Christ, the sin-stung race of Adam may be cured, for 
as by man sin came, by man must come its antidote. Adul- 
tery is a very horrid sin ; and only the Blood of Christ can 
cleanse the throne of David, and the house of Judah from its 
stain. The Jews may perhaps censure Christ's lenity toward 
the woman that was brought to Him in the temple; and 
praise the scribes and pharisees for this notable attempt to 
pervert the judgment of the Lord, as they had heard from 
His lips, the extent of the seventh statute in the Divine Law. 
Now we shall see (might those apostates from Moses say) 

whether Mary's will act in our temple as the premier 

of Heaven ; for He told us at Penticost, that He had Autho- 
rity to judge. If He condemns the woman to be stoned, we 
will say to Him, "Blessed are the merciful." If He repeats 
His detestable doctrine of salvation for the guilty by Him, we 
shall directly accuse the fellow to our Rulers, and have Him 
killed out of the way. 

The Blessed Jesus had spent the previous night upon the 
Mount of Olives. Ah! my lords, that magnificent hill wit- 
nessed His devotion to God, and His love for Zion, while the 
perfume of His mouth mingled with the midnight air, and 
His tears with the dew from heaven. Jesus had returned 
early in the morning to Jerusalem; and "sat down to teach 
the people." It appears that He was very soon interrupted; 
and in a manner that evinced desperate hypocrisy. 

I have considered the illegality of conduct, as well as the 
heart-evil of those scribes and pharisees; and I view them as 
my Saviour did, serpents and vipers ; the former in bad inten- 
tions, the latter hi diminutiveness of character, though radi- 
cally evil. 



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1. The temple of God was no place for an adulteress. 

2. The recognition of Moses was a virtual denial of the 
Divine Origin of the Law. 

3. The reference of the matter to Christ flatly contradicted 
their triple accusation the day before in the same place (the 
temple), viz. that he was ignorant of Letters, that He was a 
Deceiver; and that He had a devil. 

Behold the wisdom and the patience of God, exemplified 
by Jesus Christ. 

He stooped down, and wrote with His finger on the ground, 
as though He heard them not. (Reference to Psalm 38. 14, 
and Isaiah 42. 19; and Psalm 42. 6). They continued to 
ask Him. They were lost to decency, as well as every 
other tendency , to virtue. There they stood, each with a 
stone in his hand. 

The Blessed "Jesus lifted up Himself and said unto them, 
He that is without sin among you, let Him first cast a stone 
at her." 

"And again He stooped down," to report all to His Father. 

"And they which heard it, being convicted by their own 
conscience, went out one by one, beginning at the eldest, 
even unto the last." Not a stone was thrown at the accused. 

I see an immediate answer to prophetic prayer; and a 
direct testimony that Jesus is the Messiah. 1. The prayer, 
" Let mine adversaries be clothed with sh,ame; and let them 
cover themselves with their own confusion, as with a mantle." 
2. The prophecy, " His enemies will I clothe with shame." 

Jesus again lifted up Himself, and said to the accused, 
" Woman, where are those thine accusers ? Hath no man 
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" And she said no man, Lord. 

« Jesus said unto her, neither do I condemn thee. Go, 
and sin no more." 

You cannot urge a charge against the lowly Jesus that He 
altered the Law at all; for its express dictation is holiness; 
and it was necessary that thus the Law should be honoured 
by Christ. He dictated punishment, in a certain manner, 
exactly in accordance with the Law ; and those armed sol- 
diers of the old serpent, fled quickly from the majesty of In- 
nocence, as personified by Christ; the oldest sinner going 
out first, and all covered with shame thus to have their guilt 
exposed by the lowly Nazarene, the Separate One, and Se- 
cret of God. 

I do not believe the accusation was true. Those scribes 
and pharisees, 1 class with the two judges, that lusted for the 
beautiful Susannah. 

The Blessed Jesus then resumed His labours with the con- 
gregation assembled early to hear the Gospel ; and He said, 
" I am the Light of the world" (the Age). Yes ; by Him the 
blind eyes were opened ; and dark minds enlightened. The 
heaven in his voice illumined the grave, and Lazarus came 
forth at His word. ! how deep was the sorrow of Christ 
over the city that should have been the praise of the whole 
world; to discern in her pastors "brutish men," to see her 
children walking after lies. No marvel that the spotless, 
perfect minister of the circumcision, so often sought in soli- 
tary places to weep and pray, lamenting amid the stillness of 
night, for the slain of the daughter of His people, and bewail- 
ing their assembly as adulterous and treacherous men.* 



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To the Law again. The third commandment Christ has 
surrounded by a wall of defence that reaches the Holinesses 
above ; and true believers in the Gospel, as they ponder those 
words, "The Name of The Lord Thy God," bearing in 
mind their address to the children of Israel, are ready to ex- 
claim, then the Manifested Being was as solely Israel's God, 
as they were His only people ; and it is by your rejection of 
Christ at Pilate's bar, that Cornelius' house is blest. ! 
what a triumph has the serpent obtained over you to this 
day, while he knows Him that you reject, and owns that 
Jesus is the Holy One of God, in fast possession of the Name, 
that no man can know but He Himself. What a Messiah ! 
A Jew, so born of God, that He is the Lord God, in heaven 
upon earth, upon earth in heaven ; and wearing a Name 
written, unknown to all men, but Himself! The Christian 
retires behind the Cross, to weep for you, and in the midst of 
grief exclaims, " God is Love." 

The third commandment requires passive innocence ; and 
this, no man save JESUS ever possessed since the fall. It 
requires absolute obedience, and God looketh on the heart. 
An offence leaves the soul in despair. " The Lord will not 
hold him guiltless that taketh His Name in vain." 

Concerning the twenty-fourth chapter of the Priest's Law 
Book, our Blessed Lord has exhibited the real principle of 
the Sanctuary of God, and the rule is original good, according 
to God ; and accordingly retaliation is properly maintained 
by doing good for evil. This is Godlike and Blessed. Christ 
is the exemplar, on the Cross, " Father forgive them," &c. 

In Christ's time (as a servant), I assert that the right of 
administration was His ; and Moses, Aaron, and Miriam rest 



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from their labours. In Leviticus, their tribe is not men- 
tioned. They are called in Numbers. Christ came of Judah ; 
and He is the Lawgiver Elect, while Levi is under patri- 
archal, and prophetic malediction. Christ is the Judge. 

" Love your enemies. 

" Do good to them which hate you. 

" Bless them which curse you. 

" Pray for them that despitefully use you. 

" Unto him that smiteth thee on one cheek, 

" Offer also the other ; 

" And him that taketh away thy cloak, 

" Forbid not to take thy coat also." 
A perfect administration of the Law preserves the Law, 
which may be likened to fruit, taken from the tree and given 
to man. So a righteous rule is as equal weight of sugar that 
preserves the fruit separated from the tree, and given to man. 
My lords, nothing failed in the hands of Christ, but His own 
independent original Life ! ! ! And that, seemed to fail; but for 
only three days to Mary Magdalen, the type of woman in 
subjection to God ; and delivered by the Lord God, from 
seven horns of the Serpent. 

Did I say "seemed to fail?" Yes I did. In reality 
never ! Jesus laid it down ; and where ? Where ? ye 
seraphim, pure spirits of celestial fire, created for service to 
the Adamic kingdom upon David's throne, where did that 
laid down Existence rest ? The answer is, in God's Immen- 
sity ! In the bosom of Infinity ! In the centre of Immutable 
Love ! And returned to exalt the incarnation, as the Beloved 
Son of God! 

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to you, because of the weakness of the flesh, surrendered to 
Christ as the Spirit of its doctrine ; and is preserved in Him 
the Ark of the Testament that shall be seen in the kingdom 
of Heaven when Christ mounts the war horse to fight for His 
holy Hill. 

If you had power to understand the excellent principle 
concealed as a pearl, in the form, 1 should say it is impossible 
for you to deny the harmony of Christ's administration, by 
which He decrees the establishment of the Law, according to 
the Divine purpose, upon the base of His praise, which is 
truth ; and then, you would submit to the Law as to your 
Messiah's Officer, whose arrest is by the Spirit, and brings 
its prisoners to Him of whom it is written, " Vengeance be- 
longeth unto me, I will repay saith the Lord;" and at His 
throne you would bow in adoration that is pure as Gabriel 
from hatred of a foe ! 

I think that the Jews might do themselves service by 
seriously comparing the twenty-fourth chapter of Leviticus, 
with the fifth chapter of Matthew. They are a sample of 
contrast between Moses and Christ, both of them viewed as 
servants of God, for the elect. 

1. In the Law, "The Lord spake unto Moses saying, 
Command the children of Israel, that they bring unto thee 
pure oil (olive), beaten for the light, to cause the lamps to 
burn continually." 

2. The Gospel of Christ. 

« Let your light so shine before men, that they may see 
your good works, and glorify your Father which is in 
Heaven." 

In regard to the blasphemy of a half blood (scarce half, if 



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legitimacy be reckoned), Moses could not judge. He must 
wait till the Lord issues His command, "speak unto the 
children of Israel," &c. 

But Christ says "verily, thou shalt not come out thence till 
thou hast paid the uttermost farthing." 

" He that humbleth himself shall be exalted." Christ 
humbled Himself to service. He humbled Himself to igno- 
miny, and to a shameful death. He rose from the dead, and 
ascended to Heaven. He sent down the Spirit of truth from 
the Father, to establish His Gospel, as He in person had 
magnified the Law. He is exalted above all praise ; for He 
needeth not testimony from man; and His angels are charge- 
able with folly. In His own person He abolished death; and 
wiil come in power to reign in Glory till death is destroyed 
ultimately, and the devil who is death's governor, by His 
fiery Law, is annihilated. 

On the fourth statute of the sacred Decalogue, the Blessed 
Redeemer placed the stamp of Jubilee, and confessed Himself 
the Lord of the Sabbath. Christ never changed the day. 
Gentile believers in Christianity, altered the time. In A. D. 
360* (according to Eusebius), at the Council meeting held in 
Laodicea, by voice of the Bishop, a change of holy day was 
sealed by the Church of Christ among the Gentiles ; and the 
lapse of twice seven centuries bears witness to that decree, 
that is nominally secure to the descendants of Laodicea, as 
but onet atom of all the hundreds of her divisions, have pro- 
tested against the alteration of holy time. 

* Until that time, the Christians had observed two days, viz. the Sabbath of 
the Lord (who is the God of Israel), and the first day of the week, calling it 
" the Sabbath Day." 

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At present 1 have not strength to exhibit farther testimony 
to this honoured portion of the Royal Law. Nature is ex- 
hausted. My head is pained; my heart is sad; my hands 
hang down. I am weaker than a bruised reed; and unable 
to rally my depressed spirit, through the infirmity of the flesh, 
which is only a plague to my soul, bearing the stamp of 
mortality ; and (apart from Christ), is an object of infinite 
disgust to the living God, bringing always before Him 
Adam's sin, which is perpetually commemorated by the 
Death of Christ ! 

****** 

My own confession, as 1 close this Address, is to crown all 
that I have written, with the crown of Grace ; and this is 
sincere. 

" I the chief of sinners am, 
" But Jesus died for me." 
I this day hope in the mercy of God, that He will never 
leave me to provoke the eyes of His glory, to give me over 
to the awful delusion of denying the Gospel of His dear Son, 
Jesus Christ the Lord. 

" Keep me, keep me, King of kings, 
"Beneath the shadow of thy wings." 
0! plead my helpless cause on high, 
And grant my prayer, for Thee to die. 

H. L. 

N. B. This Address to the Dispersed of Judah, was com- 
menced at Philadelphia, in October, A. D. 1848; and closed 
at Charleston, S. C, on the 19th of March, 1849, Monday 
eve — just at the going down of the sun. 

The day following I was ill ; and three days after, I felt 
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some doubt respecting my poor mortal breath. I en- 
deavoured to thank the Lord for enabling me to conclude 
this feeble service ; and I looked to Jesus as my Physician, 
refusing to call for man. My disorder was the epidemic 
catarrh, which had prevailed over many lives in Charleston 
during the winter. Hoary age and blooming youth fell by 
this disease ; but it pleased the Lord to keep my spirit in its 
dungeon, although the mud walls are much injured by it. 
The disease operated most severely in my head. Several 
weeks I suffered rather severely ; and old age seems to raise 
a barrier against ultimate recovery. Whatever ills betide, I 
hope and pray that my reason may be preserved to my latest 
breath ; but I am enabled to abandon all to the will of Gjod. 
Christ hath taught me thus to resign my dearest wishes to 
the Divine Counsel ; and I will trust in Him. 

H. L. 

" Our Father 
Which art in Heaven, 
Hallowed be Thy Name : 
Thy kingdom come : 
Thy will be done 
In earth 
As it is in Heaven." 

To God the Saviour of Israel, 
be ascribed all Glory and 
praise, through Christ the Lamb 
slain from the foundation of the world, 
Amen. 

H. L. 



TO THE DISPERSED OF JUDAH, 



Ex. 31. 13—17. 

To all Jews {born Jews) who observe the Sign* of a Per- 
petual Covenant, which GOD, even the GOD of Abra- 
ham, Isaac, and Jacob, sirnamed The GOD of Israel, 
made with their fathers, respectf ully Greeting : 

A very feeble woman, unlearned in any schools pertaining 
to earth, except those of English Reading, in the Nineteenth 
century (vulgar reckoning) of Gospel time, earnestly solicits 
your patient attention to an address solemnly prefaced with 
the words of your celebrated Lawgiver, 

" Hear, Israel." "To the Law and to the testimony," 
I add, as spoken by one of your ancient prophets, that if 
any thing appear in this epistle contrary to your holy Books, 
" the Scripture of truth," the same must originate in dark- 
ness ; and my soul must lament over her mistake and her 
blame. — If, on the other hand, I write according to the 
words of the Law and the prophets (as I read in the stam- 
mering language,) let not my weakness, insufficiency, or 
separateness from you in religious opinions, chill that feeling 



* The Sabbath Day. 



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of charity, wont ever to flow in Jewish bosoms toward all 
whose sincerity and regard, whose respect and veneration 
for the original election of God, have been tested by open 
testimony and conduct, before the world. 

Two special assertions are presented for your serious 
consideration. 1. My leading motive is pure of any 
arrogant expectation concerning the result of your reading 
this address. 

2. I know this is true, because, I by no means aim to 
teach you. 

My motive, my object, and my duty are comprised in the 
following words : 

The testimony of Harriet Livermore, written for the 
Jeivs, unto whom the same is presented in the fear of the 
Lord, Blessed be His Name for ever and ever. Amen. 

As far as my understanding can reach to the first rise of 
the motive by which I am constrained to engage in this 
labour of devotion to religion, I am conscious of sympathy 
toward all among you, who at this time, are trembling for 
the Ark of the Covenant of the Lord. To the apprehension 
of all Jews who read not Divine Inspiration beyond " the 
burden of the word of the Lord to Israel by Malachi," 
passing and present circumstances attendant upon your 
nation, in Europe, America, and Jerusalem, a work of 
amalgamation with Christian sects of people, is robbery of 
your sanctuary, and apostacy from the God of your fathers, 
who said unto them by Moses, " I the Lord, the Holy, have 
severed you from other people, that ye should be mine." 

Having thus simply represented that I am interested in 
your perplexity, it is certainly a duty I owe the Gospel I 



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confess, to announce, that I dare not anathematize a Jew, 
either for marriage contrary to your law, or for profession 
of Christianity, under name of Presbyterian, Independent, 
Methodist, Baptist, or the Church of England. I am taught 
by a question and declaration of the Apostle Paul, to con- 
sider myself uncalled, as incompetent to judge another man's 
servant; for to his own Master he standeth or falleth. I am 
commanded positively by Christ Himself, who said, " Judge 
not and I have also to consider the very serious difficulties 
in the way of a visible member of the circumcision, who is 
at all inclined to confess Christianity at this time. While I 
discern (by a survey of the condition of all Christendom) 
weakness, 1 can lay my hand upon my own heart and cry 
out, here I Feel it. Weakness; yea, " weaker than a 
bruised reed," am I of a truth. But there are two things, I 
am obliged to estimate according to truth ; and to have no 
fellowship with them!!! The first is, a departure from the 
sign of the everlasting covenant, even the Sabbath Day. 
The other is indifference toward the Kingly Covenant, which 
is sealed to David by the Oath of God. I believe in no 
other preaching of the Gospel than was preached by Peter, 
whose words are too plain, and express, for me to presume 
to misapprehend ; and have enough of the same from Paul 
likewise, to stimulate my watch for " the times of Restitution 
of all things which God hath spoken by the mouth of all His 
holy prophets since the world began." 

I now, my respected friends, turn from the simplicity of 
preamble, to the testimony of my belief in the Gospel of 
Christ, as " the Minister of the circumcision for the truth of 
God, to confirm the promises made unto the fathers," 



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entreating of you to read with candour, and patiently to 
investigate every part, and the whole sum of my testimony, 
by (I will even say) the Hebrew text of the Scripture of 
truth. " To the law and to the testimony if I err from this 
rule, there is no light in me. 

" Light" is here intended for spiritual knowledge. I have 
not much ; but to opine that I have none, is against strong 
internal evidence that I am an accountable being ; and if so, 
to whom, is a question of serious moment. This is not to 
be resolved to any certainty, but by the united testimony of 
spirit and word, which is presented externally, by the Letter, 
and internally by an irresistible influence, which I cannot 
comprehend, only as I am led to believe what is written, 
concerning Creation and its Author. Without preface, or 
proemial intimation of doubt, uncertainty, or excuse, Moses 
wrote — 

" In the beginning God created the heavens and the 
earth;" and proceeds to declare what God did, without 
saying, what, and who, and how, is God, but announces the 
Spirit of God, and the voice of God, manifesting a material 
world, of dry land termed Earth, of waters called Seas, a 
firmament over and around, named Heaven; out of the 
earth, seed, grass, herbs, and trees; and lights in the fir- 
mament, to distinguish day from night, ordained for signs 
and for seasons, for days and for years. Out of the waters 
and upon the land God called forth life, in the form of fish, 
fowl, and beast, saying, "Let the Earth bring forth, &c, all, 
after their kind ; and all was manifested as God said ; and 
God saw that it was good ; all — except the division of the 
waters — which was the work of the second Day. 



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135 



It is announced by Moses, that after the fifth day, God 
spake as in concert with Existence, revealed in plurality 
of Existence, saying, " Let US make man (signifying The 
Noble — the Dignified — the Valiant) in our image, after our 
likeness ; and let them (here is the plural again) have 
dominion over the fish of the sea — over the fowl of the air 
— over the cattle, over all the earth, and over every creeping 
thing that creepeth upon the earth. This creation was 
manifested ; and then " God saw every thing that He had 
made, and behold it was very good" — yea, after man was 
created, " male and female," the division of the waters is 
accounted good ; and the evening and the morning were 
the sixth Day. 

Moses then announces the Sabbath, i. e. the Rest of 
God, saying : * Thus, the heavens and the earth were fin- 
ished ; and all the host (i. e. all the armies or angels) of 
them. I thus believe fully, in the beginning of the Creation 
of God. All is creation except "the image of God;" — this 
is, from everlasting to everlasting, God Himself! 

And on the seventh day, God ended His work which 
He (Blessed be His Name,) had made ; and He rested on 
the seventh day, and sanctified it, because that He rested 
and was refreshed. 

Moses afterward declares that God, by Name Yah-Ho- 
Vah, planted a garden. In this garden, the Lord God put 
" man, formed of the dust of the ground, into whom the 
Lord God breathed (even into his nostrils) the breath of 
life ;* and man became a living soul." — A living soul ! A 



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rational, spiritual, and immortal substance, which in God, 
i. e. in His image, was capable of glorifying the Original, by 
thought, desire, reasoning, reflecting, and imitating God. 
Unto Man (Moses writes), " The Lord God gave a com- 
mandment of life ; and after this commandment was given 
to "the man," whom the Lord God had placed in the gar- 
den of Eden, to dress and to keep it, it pleased the Lord 
God, even in the garden of Eden, after all His works of 
Creation were finished, and the Sabbath ordained, to form a 
help meet for the man, of one small part of the living soul, 
called man ; and Adam accepted this help meet, calling her 
Woman, because, she was taken out of man. 

In the moral and intelligent creation of God, I am person- 
ally interested; for I am a descendant from man, formed of 
mould of earth ; and of woman (so called), that was originally 
a part of man, and ordained in her creation, a help meet in 
the work of keeping and dressing (i. e. adorning), the garden 
of Eden, that was planted by the Lord God. This I learn 
by the Mosaic history of Creation; and after this history there 
is an account of the overthrow (may I call it ?) of the Glory, 
and the garden of Delights becomes the seat of judgment for 
the Lord God. A scene is opened to my view in the third 
chapter of the Book of Genesis, that time in his rounds for 
six thousand years, Has never worn out ; and in the scene I 
am personally interested, for the judgment of the Lord God 
is every where beneath the sun, and remains to be consum- 
mated by the bruising of the Serpent's Head. 1 am taught 
by the Lord God, that this judgment comes by the seduction 
of the woman. Dare I doubt? Dare I disbelieve? "God 
forbid !" Indeed I do (by grace) believe the Divine Word. 



DISPERSED OF JUDAH. 137 

Man, what art thou now ? In this world of misery, 

sin, and death, 1 have but one source of comfort; and I need 
no more. It is a fountain, Original with Eternity — I mean 
Redemption. Firmly believing the words of the Lord God, 
the Truth is revealed to me in type; and my duty is, to follow 
up the mark until I arrive at the end. The mark is first 
called Enmity between the Woman and the Serpent that 
beguiled her, and between her Seed and the Serpent's, whose 
Head the Woman's Seed is ordained to bruise, i. e. destroy. 
Through the broad land of Holy Scripture, I march, and step 
by step, look for that promised Bruiser of my primal foe. 

It is evident that 1 shall not prosper in my search, except 
I hold fast the principle that incited me to commence, even 
faith, which is the substance of things hoped for, and the evi- 
dence of things not seen. My case is urgent as critical. Ex- 
cept I believe continually, I shall miss the mark of the prize. 

Adam and Eve are exiles from the Presence of the Lord 
God, who drove out the man, and woman followed him. 
The garden of Eden is shut up, and Cherubims and a flam- 
ing sword guarded the Tree of Life, which is in the Paradise 
of God. Adam, O Adam ! what a foil was thine ! Is Eve 
in any better case ? I answer, that as Moses was scribe for 
the Lord God, all that he wrote is for our instruction, and on 
any point where he is silent, we are not allowed to guess; 
but we are bound to believe all that is written. This then is 
before us : « Eve bare Cain, and said, / (not to Adam we) 
have gotten The Man — The Lord. How express is her be- 
lief in the promised Seed ? Woman then is the first type of 
the true Church of God. Eve was however disappointed. 
There was no Enmity between Cain and the Serpent. The 
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first child that was born, did not believe the Lord God, or 
he would not have brought to Him, the fruit of the ground, 
that was cursed for man's sake, for an offering. 

N. B. " Cursed is he that doeth the work of the Lord de- 
ceitfully; and cursed is he that keepeth back his sword* from 
blood."— Jer. 48. 20. 

It is written that Eve bare a second son; and she esteemed 
him as a vapour.t So it proved; for Abel, having faith in 
the Lord God, was led by the Spirit, to offer an acceptable 
Sacrifice; and this offering of Abel "of the firstlings of his 
flock, and of the fat thereof," is a great help to my search for 
the promised Bruiser of the Serpent's Head ; nor this only ; 
for Abel's faith cost him his life; and so I perceive that a 
Lamb is the symbol of an offering acceptable to God; and a 
man is the reality of that which is shadowed out by the type. 

Cain did all that he could to please the serpent. He in- 
sulted the Lord God by a hypocritical act of devotion, and 
then pursued unto death his righteous brother, unto whom, 
and to his offering, the Lord had respect. 

Thus the foundation of the religious world was laid in 
Blood; and the voice of a martyr cries from the ground unto 
the Lord. 

Eve is again a mother ; and again her faith revives, for 
(said she) " God hath appointed me another Seed instead of 
Abel whom Cain slew." Again was the mother of all living 
disappointed; and after the birth of her third son, Moses 
mentions her no more, not even to say that she died. Her 

* Sword — i. e. faith in the Justice and in the Word of God, 
t See Psalm 39. 4; and James 4. 14. 



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grandson, however, appears to inherit Eve's faith; for he 
began the preaching of faith, i.e. The Name of the Lord. 

After Abel, there is no mention made of sacrifice while that 
world stood; but instead thereof, there is an example of walk- 
ing with God upon earth, and translation of that man, so that 
he never tasted death. 

The sixth chapter of Genesis presents a very gloomy tran- 
script of the fall of our first parents in the garden of Delights. 
"The mystery of iniquity" wrought strong help for the ser- 
pent, by the birth of giants, and awful wickedness prevailed 
on the earth, so that the Lord is represented as grieved at 
the heart, that He had made man on the earth, because "God 
saw that every imagination of the thoughts of the heart of 
man, was only evil continually ;" and the Lord threatened 
first the withdrawal of His Spirit ; and even declared that 
He would destroy man and beast, creeping thing and fowl of 
the air ; for, said the Lord, " it repenteth me that I have 
made them." 

Amid the horrors of victory on the side of Evil, disclosed 
by Moses in this chapter (for it is written that "the earth 
was corrupt before God; and the earth was filled with vio- 
lence; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth;" 
see Rom. 1), I see one gleam of hope for our fallen race; and 
it irradiates the brow of Noah; for it is written, "Noah 
found grace in the eyes of the Lord." It is written that he 
" was a just man, and perfect in his generations, and walked 
with God." 

A declaration of judgment is made to Noah by the Being, 
viz. Yah-Ho-Vah, Jah-Ehijah, The Power, El Eloah, Elo- 
him, The Governor, Adonai, Shaddai, Yah-Ho-Vah, Tseba- 
oth, and Eliou, the Excellency. 



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The announcement of general judgment on the terrestrial 
globe, with its inhabitants, is accompanied by a command to 
Noah, for the building of an Ark, to the saving of his house ; 
and unto him God saith, " with thee will I establish my cove- 
nant." 

After the flood, Noah builded an altar unto the Lord, and 
offered thereon a burnt offering of every clean beast and 
every clean fowl; and " The Lord smelled a savour of Rest." 
This is the second Sabbath festival recorded by Moses in the 
first Book of the Law. 

And God blessed Noah and his family ; and God gave to 
Noah a sign of His covenant; and it was a bow in the east 
at the setting of the sun in the west. No more entire flood. 

Where is the promised Seed ? " Let Patience have her 
perfect work." 

Noah died. One branch of his family was accursed by 
prophecy; and from that branch there came a shoot, that 
proved to be the first type (in the world after the Flood) of 
the Rebel against the Holy, called in these days, Anti-Christ. 
And the beginning of his kingdom was Babylon. The Pro- 
mised Seed is now hidden. There is no track of the footsteps 
Divine; for Righteousness is withdrawn from the earth; and 
the dominion of Pride brought the Lord to earth again ; and 
His first visit after the flood, is to judge Babylon, the crown 
of pride. 

At this period there was not a public servant of God upon 
earth : no testimony of His Grace — no altar unto the Lord — 
no sacrifice or offering to His name. 

After the coming down of the Lord to judge Babylon, 
Moses very abruptly (to our view), recounts the generations 



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of Shem, Noah's son, whom Noah blessed in the Name of 
the Lord God; and makes a pause at the tenth from Shem, 
as the Lord directed him ; for here was the calling of the 
Lord; and Moses writes it : 

" Now the Lord had said unto Abram, Get thee out of 
thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father's 
house, into a land that I will show thee." 

Abram obeyed this call, and went forth not knowing whi- 
ther he was to go, only as the Lord directed his way; and 
his first resting place was Sichem, in the land of Canaan, 
where the Lord appeared to him, and said, "Unto thy seed 
will I give this land ; and there Abram builded an altar unto 
the Lord; and called upon the Name of the Lord." After 
this, Abram journeyed, going on still toward the south. And 
there was famine in the land, and Abram went down into 
Egypt. He left Egypt, and returned to Canaan, and came 
to Bethel, where he called on the Name of the Lord, who 
appeared to him again, and promised all the land which he 
saw, unto him and his seed forever. 

Afterward the Word of the Lord came unto Abram in a 
vision, saying, " Fear not Abram, I am thy Shield, and thy 
exceeding great reward." Abram asked the Lord what he 
would give him, seeing he was childless, and a servant was 
his heir ? 

The Lord then promised him a son. Abram believed in 
the Lord, and it was counted to him for righteousness. And 
the Lord said to Abram, " I am the Lord which brought 
thee out of Uz (fire) of the Chaldees, to give thee this land 
to possess it." 

Abram asked a Sign ; and was answered by a command 



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to prepare a five-fold sacrifice ; and a deep sleep, with horror 
of great darkness, came upon Abram; and a revelation was 
made to him of the afflictions of his descendants in Egypt 
four hundred years; and of the horrors of the latter day. 

When Abram was ninety-and-nine years old, the Lord 
appeared to him again, and called him to holiness, saying, 
"lam The Almighty God; walk before me, and be thou 
perfect;" and he gave to Abram the Covenant of the circum- 
cision, i. e. holy separateness. 

Now my prospect brightens. The Lord has established 
his covenant with Abram (the high father), and names him 
Abraham (the father of many nations), and calls his wife the 
mother of kings. The covenant is an everlasting covenant, 
and it is sealed upon the promised Seed. 

When Abraham was one hundred years old, Sarah bare 
him a son. In this child Abraham and Sarah beheld the 
heir of God's inheritance ; and it pleased the Lord to try 
Abraham's faith, by demanding Isaac for a burnt offering. 
Abraham obeyed : and was promised plainly the Crown of 
blessedness, even the Bruiser of Satan, which is the old Ser- 
pent, the Devil; and Abraham rejoiced in prospect of the 
Day of God, in which the promised Seed should possess the 
gate of his enemies. 

After Abraham, Isaac received the grace of God, and unto 
Isaac the Lord said, "I am the God of Abraham thy father; 
fear not, for I am with thee, and will perform the oath which 
I sware unto Abraham thy father, that in thy seed all the 
nations of the earth shall be blessed." 

A revelation from the Lord was made to Rebekah, the 
wife of Isaac, concerning the descent of the covenant oath, 



DISPERSED OF JUDAH. 143 

from Isaac to her younger son ; and there can be no doubt of 
Jacob's election, although the circumstances that secured it, 
seem to cast blame on Isaac, Rebekah, and himself. 

My testimony of Isaac, Rebekah, and Jacob, is plainly this: 
Isaac had been offered unto the Lord for a burnt offering, 
by commandment of God; and as he lay bound upon the 
Altar, builded for the occasion, Isaac regarded himself (ac- 
cording to his father's words), God's provided Lamb ; but 
the countermand by the angel of the Lord out of Heaven, 
releasing Abraham, by Isaac's deliverance, with the same 
authority that ordered his death, was followed by an event, 
which shew to Isaac that God would indeed provide Himself 
a Lamb, apart from the manner of man, for an acceptable 
sacrifice to Himself, that by this provision of flesh and blood, 
Atonement be made for Adam's sin, which brought death 
into the world. Isaac then understood, that himself was the 
type of that Lamb; and his faith in the Promised Seed of the 
woman inspired the blessings he gave to his sons. 

Rebekah, as a type of the church, acted for God, in 
judging the elder for sin against his birthright ; and preparing 
the way for blessing to be sealed on the election of God. 

Jacob, in his mother's womb, took hold of his brother's 
heel, and so followed Esau into the world. On the day of 
Blessing, Jacob, in obedience to the voice of election (sy- 
nonymous with prayer of the Church), entered his father's 
presence, arrayed in the birthright robe, bringing in his hand 
that took hold of Esau's heel, savoury meat his mother had 
prepared ; and he obtained the promise of kingdom, dominion 
and glory. 

This is an abstract of my sentiments concerning the confir- 



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mation of the Covenant which God made with Abraham, 
and His oath unto Isaac, concerning the Promised Seed. 
Unto Jacob it was for a law ; and to Israel for an everlasting 
Covenant, By this confirmation I discern, that the Serpent 
trembled for his bad cause, seeing that what the elder lost in 
the garden, was given to the younger in his father's house. 

The prospect brightens very gloriously. With the Cove- 
nant Bow set in Mercy's cloud, over my head, and the 
bleating of the sheep on Canaan's hills, in my ear, I proceed 
to the twenty-eighth chapter of the Book of Genesis. 

" And Isaac called Jacob, and blessed him, and charged 
him, and said unto him, UUP* thou shalt not take a wife of 
the daughters of Canaan." 

N. B. A strait line of calling is to be preserved. The Seed 
of the woman, called in Eve. Noah is the Rest, on to Abra- 
ham, Isaac and Jacob. The Supplanter, obtains the 
Heavenly Title, or Name ! 

"Arise" — i. e. make speed ; or the Church is deprived of 
her children in One Day. 

" Jacob obeyed his father and his mother," and left his 
paternal home to go to a strange land 5 for its inhabitants 
served idols. 

With stones for his pillows, he lay down to sleep, upon the 
ground. 

In this night of his exile, the Lord shew unto Jacob, in a 
dream, the plan of Salvation, in figure of a ladder, set upon 
the earth, whose top reached to Heaven ; and " Behold the 
Lord stood above it ; and said I AM The Lord God of 
Abraham thy father, and the God of Isaac." 

The Loud then confirmed Isaac's blessing upon Jacob ; 



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and the pilgrim awaked out of sleep, exclaiming, " Surely 
the Lord is in this place, and I knew it not." And he was 
afraid. Thus began his religious experience : and he took 
the hard pillow from beneath his head, and set it up for a 
pillar, as typical of his Refuge, and anointed it with oil, as 
assurance of Grace. 

Twenty years passed over, while Jacob was a servant in 
Syria ; and the Lord kept him, and he became the father of 
eleven sons in his bondage. Then the Lord appeared to 
Jacob, announced Himself the God of Bethel, remembering 
the anointed pillar, and commanded Jacob to return unto the 
land of his fathers, and to his kindred, adding " and I will be 
with thee." 

"And Jacob went on his way, and the angels of God met 
him." 

And when Jacob saw them, he said " This is God's host." 
And he named the place Mahanaim ; and afterward Joshua 
appointed this place for one of the six cities of refuge from 
the man slayer. 

Jacob was afraid of Esau. 

He prayed unto the God of his father Abraham, the God 
of his father Isaac, and unto the Lord that commanded him 
to go home to his own country, and then he prepared a pre- 
sent for Esau, and sent it on, and in the night, he took his 
two wives, his two women servants, and his eleven sons, 
and passed over the ford Jabbok, and sent them all over the 
brook, and when he was left alone, "there wrestled with 
Jacob a man, until the break of day." 

And neither prevailed ; but the mysterious stranger 
touched the hollow of Jacob's thigh, and it was out of joint. 
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"Let me go," said the Mystery, "for the day breaketh." 
In Jacob's reply, I read Esther's resolve, " if I perish, I 
perish." 

The man said " what is thy Name ?" "And he said 
Jacob." 

"Thy name shall no more be called Jacob (Sup- 
planter) but Israel (a Prince of the strong God), for thou 
hast prevailed." 

The man then blessed him, confessing his own title, The 
Secret; and Jacob said "1 have seen God face to face, and 
my life is preserved." 

Memorable night ! in the annals of time ! sacred scene ! 
holy mystery ! glorious conquest ! heavenly victory ! A 
trembling mortal is conqueror by faith; and the Serpent 
writhed in agony ! 

How plain and even is the path of truth to the eye that 
fastens by faith on the glory of that seed, who shall bruise 
the Serpent's Head. "Though the vision tarry, wait for it: 
it will surely come. It is for an appointed time. At the end 
it shall speak and not lie!" 

I come now to the thirty-fifth chapter of Genesis. 

" And God said unto Jacob, Arise, go up to Bethel and 
dwell there; and make there an altar unto God, that ap- 
peared unto thee when thou fledest from the face of Esau, 
thy brother." 

" Then Jacob said unto his household, and to all that were 
with him, put away the strange gods that are among you, 
and be clean, and change your garments." 

"And let us arise, and go up to Bethel ; and I will there 
make an altar unto God, who answered me in the day of 
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It is written that this Altar, Jacob named 
El-Beth-El. 

The prospect is now fair as summer's noon. The promised 
Seed was, is, and is to come, 

El-Beth-El ! 

It is written, that God appeared again to Jacob, and re- 
peated the blessing of the man, whose title is The Secret of 
God. 

"And God went up from him, in the place where He 
talked with him. 

'•'And Jacob" (Israel) "called the name of the place where 
God spake with him, Bethel." 

On this occasion Jacob set up a Pillar of Stone, a type of 
the support of God's house upon earth; and Israel is that 
house. Wine and oil were poured on that Pillar. 

After these things, the family of Abraham's God, com- 
menced journeying again ; and close by the spot elect for the 
birth of the Promise, Israel's weary sheep died. This is 
Rachel, whose anxiety to be the mother (I do not say a 
mother), is apparently no religious profit to her house; and 
the only free born son of Jacob, who is likewise the only son 
of Israel, and also the son of a free woman, is brought forth 
in the Land of Promise ; yet his mother said over him 
Benoni, and died ; but Jacob called him Benjamin. 

The younger son of Leah is in the shade. Shortly after 
her elder son is in crime ; and her other two are under re- 
proach ; but Leah survives the mother of Joseph and Ben- 
jamin ; and yet Rachel's bones have the earliest rest in the 
promised Land. 

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"El-Beth-El," or God over the house of God, is shown to 
us, by the scribe of the Lord, I AM, in character of a man 
of sorrows, i. e. by Type. 

I cannot however, here testify of the particulars. I pause 
one instant at the eighth, ninth and tenth verses of Genesis, 
forty-seventh chapter. 

" How many are the days of the years of thy life ?" 

" The days of the years of my pilgrimage are a hundred 
and thirty years ; few and evil have the days of the years of 
my life been ; and have not attained unto the days of the 
years of the life of my fathers, in the days of their pilgrim- 
age." 

I pass on to verse twenty-eighth. 

" And Jacob lived in the land of Egypt seventeen years, 
so the whole of the days of the years of the life of Jacob, 
are a hundred and forty-seven years." 

Verse twenty-ninth. 

" And the time drew nigh, 
« That ISRAEL must die." 
The Mighty Prince with God has to pass through the valley 
of the shadow of death. 

Under the thigh, once touched by the finger of God, must 
the Increase of Israel, put the filial hand, and swear unto 
Jacob, that his remains should be carried out of Egypt, and 
laid with Abraham, Sarah, Isaac, Rebekah and Leah. 

N. B. It may appear discrepant that I place the dying 
words of Jacob here : but read the fifth verse of the fiftieth 
chapter, and compare the thirtieth and the thirty-first verses 
of the forty -ninth chapter, with the thirteenth verse of the 
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Forty-eighth chapter of Genesis. 

Rachel, as a type of the true church of God, prophesied 
over Joseph, as the Increase of the holy Flock. 

Israel is sick. Joseph brought his two sons, to see his dying 
father. 

" And one told Jacob, behold thy son Joseph cometh unto 
thee." 

Israel revived at the sound, and sat up in his bed ; and 
addressed his beloved Joseph in a brief display of the Cove- 
nant, and claimed his grandsons for the Increase of Rachel's 
house, putting upon them his Divine title, in the strong 
language of faith, saying, 

" God before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac did 
walk, The God which fed me all my life long unto this day, 
The Angel which redeemed me from all evil, Bless the 
Lads ; and let my name be named upon them, and the name 
of my fathers, Abraham and Isaac, and let them grow into a 
multitude on the earth 

And to the younger Israel gave the Birthright. 

Chapter forty-ninth. 

The twelve sons of Jacob are then summoned into the 
Royal Presence ; and the field of prophecy is spread far and 
wide by testimony of God, spoken by the mouth of man, 
and pronounced his enlargement even unto a multitude of 
nations. 

« Gather yourselves together, that I may tell you that 
which shall befall you in the last days." 

" Gather yourselves together, and hear, ye sons of Jacob ; 
and harken unto ISRAEL, your father." 

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dispersed to the four quarters of this terrestrial globe ! I, a 
little worm, crawling upon this earth "in the last days," 
dare not now to attempt any written explication of this great 
body of holy prophecy; but her sentimental testimony thereof 
may be expressed in two lines, written by an English Poet : 
" God is His own Interpreter, 
" And He will make it plain." 
I have done with the great Book of Genesis for the pre- 
sent, except to say, that I view it as the sacred Cabinet of 
God, even the Lord God of Israel. A Divine Lock is upon 
the door thereof. The Promised Seed is the Key to that 
Lock. The Holy Spirit of God is Keeper of that Key ; and 
He openeth only, in answer to the cry of the humble, and 
such as seek Truth in sincerity, humility, and love. 

***** V. i W* p. 

My testimony here takes a new position : and the one just 
left, is, " Joseph died ; and they embalmed him, and put him 
in a coffin, in Egypt." — 

As entering the Porch of a Palace, precedes introduction to 
the Ruler thereof, I name to you "The Second Book of 
Moses, which is called Exodus." 

I view the contents of this sacred portion of Holy Writ, as 
a Revelation, closely connected with the Promised Seed ; but 
the representations hold man in Enosh state. 

The Prince of Israel (in Egypt), which is Joseph, is dead ; 
and all his brethren, and all that generation. 

" And the children of Israel were fruitful and multiplied, 
and increased abundantly, and waxed exceeding mighty ; 
and the land was filled with them." 

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visible Leader of their own, nor a scrip to read, or a prophet 
to teach them. We are left without any open testimony, 
whether the glorious Covenant is recollected in all their 
ranks. 

The present monarch over Egyyt, is pre-eminently "a 
hunter for the precious Life," the Promised Seed ; and, the 
King of Egypt discovering, that hard bondage in mortar and 
in brick, and all manner of rigorous service in the field, 
effected no diminution of their numbers or strength, but the 
reverse, even that "the more they afflicted them, the more 
they multiplied and grew," he, as Agent for the serpent, 
ordered the murder of every male infant among them. 
Pharaoh's order was, to throw them into the river Nile, the 
Crocodile's stream ! 

A beautiful son is born of the tribe of Levi. No star of 
the kingdom is over that house ; but this lovely infant, son 
of a man of that house, who married a daughter of the same, 
is marvellously preserved. He is laid in a little basket, and 
his mother put this among the flags, by the river's brink. 

"And his sister stood afar off, to witness what would be 
done to him." 

Who discovered in that infant, the Lawgiver of Israel, 
the King in Jeshuron — the servant of God? — Can we say 
One? — Not upon earth, not one. But, above the stars, there 
was set a watch over this infant, that secured his life, while 
a maid in Israel upon earth, looks through her tears, upon 
the bulrush cradle. What a semblance of weakness! How 
dim is the present prospect ! Who can say to another " Be 
of good cheer ?" 

But — see — a female company, setting forth from Pha- 



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raoh's Palace, and moving along toward the river of Egypt. 
The daughter of the king is coming, to wash herself, and 
her maidens with her : they come to the banks of the river. 
The princess saw that ark of bulrushes first ; and she sent 
her maid to fetch it. And when she opened it, she saw 
The child ; and the babe wept. Eloquence, almost super- 
human ! " And the king's daughter had compassion on him," 
and she said, 

" This is one of the Hebrews' children." Miriam was close 
bycv'She spoke to the princess, " Shall I go, and call to thee a 
nurse of the Hebrew women, that she may nurse the child 
for thee ?" 

" And Pharaoh's daughter said to her, Go." " Ana * the 
maid went, and called the child's mother." 

" And Pharaoh's daughter said unto her : Take this child, 
and nurse him for me, and I will give thy wages." 

"And the woman took the child and nursed it." 

" And the child grew, and she brought him unto Pharaoh's 
daughter ; and he became her son. And she called his 
name, Moses, and she said, because I drew him out of the 
water." 

" And it came to pass in those days, when Moses was 
grown (I suppose of age) that he went out unto his brethren. 

pause to review ! The child is hid three months by 
his mother. He is carried in a rush cradle to the river's brink 
by his mother. He is watched by his sister. He is delivered 
by Pharaoh's daughter. He is nursed by his mother, at the 
saying of his sister. He is educated, adopted, and main- 
tained by Pharaoh's daughter. This is Moses, Israel's Law- 
giver. Man ! where art thou in all this ?" 



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Moses is the writer of his own history. He relates events 
as they took place. He slew an Egyptian whom he beheld 
smiting a Hebrew, and afterward he saw two Hebrews 
striving together; and he said to the aggressor in this quarrel, 
" Wherefore smitest thou, thy fellow?" And is answered: 
"Who made thee a Prince and a judge over us? Intendest 
thou to kill me as thou killedst the Egyptian ?" 

Here I pause again. — A question arises, had Moses any 
call from God at that time? — There is an answer in the 
New Testament. Acts 7. " — he supposed his brethren 
would have understood how that God by his hand would 
deliver them ; but they understood not !" 

Moses fled from the face of Pharaoh ; and dwelt in 

the land of Midian. Forty years Moses dwelt in that land. 

He married an Ethiopian princess ; and she bare him two 
sons. 

The children of Israel cried and sighed in Egypt, by reason 
of hard bondage. 

" And God heard their groaning ; and God remembered 
His covenant with Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob." 

" And God looked upon the children of Israel, and God 
knew them," i. e. noticed them. 

" Behold the cry of the children of Israel is come unto me." 

This voice I know, blessed be God. 

It is the voice of the man that gave to Jacob the name of 
Israel. " It is written that Moses was afraid to look upon 
God." Moses was then in entire Enosh state. The Angel 
of the Covenant ordered Moses to put off his shoes ; and for- 
bid his approach. What a condition ! My friends, is not 
this humiliation ? Is not Moses reproved for sin ? (Jer. 13. 
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22.) The manner of preparation for such an office as Moses 
was called to fill upon earth, writes Enosh upon the whole 
ceremony of your Law, until the Serpent's Head shall be 
bruised by the Woman's Seed. This is a standing upright 
position of testimony, to the honour of the Lord God, who 
pronounced Enmity for a Law, to separate the interests of 
Adam's race, from the principle of evil; and, by carrying 
into effect that Law immediately after Judgment on the first 
transgression of the Law of Life, the Lord God retained the 
last miracle of Creation (even Woman) in His service, which 
is of faith; and to keep alive His promise, He called Moses, 
saying, " I AM the God of thy father, the God of Abraham, 
the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob." — Then Moses hid 
his face. — See weakness ! 

Great however, was Moses, in his calling, in his office, in 
his work, and service, by appointment, by declaration, by 
command, and by power of the Lord God; yet Moses is 
Enosh still ; and the utmost that can be said of him, he is the 
Instrument of God's Power, showing a Type of the Bruiser, 
that is the end of the Law, as Redeemer of Israel. Moses is 
certainly a Revelation of the material, as the mouth of God 
to Israel, and as Israel's Mediator; and Moses was faithful 
in all his house for a testimony of those things which concern 
the fulfilment of the Law; for the Law must be fulfilled, as 
it is originally a marriage covenant. If the weak side fail, 
and even proves to be no help meet at all, the strong cannot 
miss the mark ; for He changeth not; and so the covenant of 
His marriage with Israel, being a covenant of works, the 
husband takes the whole responsibility on Himself; and 
trusts that wife no more, while the Serpent retains his power 



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in the heavenly spheres. Only let Michael engage in open 
war, in Heaven, against the Serpent, and the latter is cast 
down into the earth, and takes possession of a human body. 
In the same he will be destroyed; for that human body is the 
Serpent's Head. 

Pharaoh is a type of this Lawless one, 
Moses is a type of the Opposite ! 
The Book of Exodus is as a heavenly mirror on God's part, 
reflecting the beauties of holiness upon His Creation, whether 
animal or moral ; and in the ordained form of the outward 
Sanctuary, He is glorious in perfect symmetry of the sub- 
stance shadowed forth by His commanded work; for the^or- 
ganization of that Sanctuary is a pattern of the perfections 
inherent in the Promised Seed. 

But what can I say of the Ten Words of God, which He 
entrusted not to man, in their manifestation ; but inscribed 
them Himself, with His own hand, upon tables of stone ? 

I will say, that Love is the burden of those ten words; and 
her wings spread over the throne of God, and stretch from 
thence over all His acts to His covenant people, to hide them 
in the Rock of their Salvation, which is the Promised Seed. 

May I speak of the Ark, the Altar, and the Tabernacle ? 
Shall I say that I behold the children of Levi, carrying about 
in the wilderness, the Promised Seed in a figure ? Is the 
Holy One of Israel typified by the Ark of Cedar and gold ? 
The Tabernacle covered this Glory in the wilderness. Of 
these things I cannot now speak particularly. 

I shall write from the Book. 

"And it came to pass that Moses reared up the Taber- 
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"And he brought the Ark into the Tabernacle." 

■ " the Glory of the Lord filled the Tabernacle." 

" the cloud of the Lord was upon the Tabernacle by- 
day, and fire was on it by night, in the sight of all the house 
of Israel, throughout all their journeys." 

Thus concludes the Enosh state of the elect. We found 
them in Egypt, afilicted and oppressed by the Serpent's Seed. 
We follow them in the wilderness, and rejoice in prospect of 
the living Sacrifice, that shall finish judgment, and set 
righteousness in the earth. 

Leviticus. "And the Lord called unto Moses, and spake 
unto him out of the Tabernacle of the congregation." Chap. 
1. v. 1. The Divine Speech occupies eight chapters, and 
expresses the Laws of the Sanctuary, with orders to set 
apart Aaron and his sons for Divine service. 

This Holy Book contains judgment in the form of a pro- 
phecy, and at the twenty-sixth chapter, I pause to contem- 
plate the promise of the Lord (N. B. "And the Lord said 
unto Moses, speak unto the children of Israel," &c.) that for 
their sakes who shall pine away in their iniquities, in the 
land of their enemies; if they confess their iniquity, and their 
trespass against the Lord, 

He will for their sakes remember the covenant of their an- 
cestors, &c. 

This is a sure promise ; and the Book ends with the words 
Mount Sinai. 

The Kingdom is represented in Numbers; and the Right- 
eous Ruler thereof, the kingdom exalted by blessing, in Power 
of God, by dominion of the Sceptre that shall rise out of Is- 
rael, even Jacob's star. N. B. I remember the night recorded 

in Genesis 32. 22. 



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Deuteronomy, 32d chapter. Moses' last testimony of 
Judgment. 

33. Moses' blessing of the tribes. 

34. It is written that Moses died; and God buried him. 
Inferences. Mercy rejoiceth over judgment ; and the body 

of Moses is reserved for witness, and that for God, so the tes- 
timony of Malachi seals truth on the service of Moses, which 
the remnant are commanded to observe in the opening of the 
Day of the Lord. 

Joshua. * Moses my servant is dead." 

In this section of holy writ, the successor of a Lawgiver to 
Israel, is shown to me as a type of the Mighty Conqueror of 
my primal foe. I rejoice in Joshua's mission. He is Israel's 
chief Captain from Moab to Zion ; and unto the chosen peo- 
ple he shall divide for an inheritance the promised land. 

The bones of Joseph are safe in the Promised Land. 

Judges. Judah smites Jerusalem with sword and fire. And 
the house of Joseph went against Bethel ; and the Lord was 
with them. But Joshua is dead; and his bones rest in 
Mount Ephraim. 

In the Book of the Judges, I see Evil oft raises itself 
against the Promised Seed ; but the latter conquers at the 
river Kishon ; and Deborah sang, " So let all thine enemies 
perish, Adonai ; but let them that love Him be as the sun 
when he goeth forth in his might." 

And Israel rested, or, it is written, " The land rested forty 
years." 

Chapter 6. Evil rears its power again; and God deals 
with Israel, by the hand of Midian. 

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sent a messenger to reprove them ; and then called Gideon to 
save Israel from the hand of the Midianites. 

See God's method with Evil, in extremity. " Take thy 
father's young bullock, and throw down the Altar of Baal 
that thy father hath, and cut down the grove." 

And Gideon did it by night. 

And Gideon went against the Midianites with three hun- 
dred men; every man had a trumpet ; and they had but one 
sword, even the Sword of the Lord, and of Gideon, (typical 
of Christ against disease and death, followed by His little 
flock of preachers). 

Evil re-appeared ; and even a Judge in Israel is a prey to 
the uncircumcised, and one tribe in Israel is near being lost. 

And at the end of the Book of the Judges, Democracy 
triumphed ; and I ask, where is the Ark of the Testimony of 
the Lord ? 

Ruth. Elimelech (my God is King) a man of Bethlehem 
Judah, is driven by famine, into the land of Moab ; aqd there 
he died. And his two sons married women of Moab ; and 
they died in Moab, childless. 

Poor Naomi ! she was a relation of Boaz (a pillar) of the 
city of Bread ; and she loved her native soil. Naomi was 
resigned to return alone ; but Mahlon's widow clave unto 
Naomi, and Naomi's people, and Naomi's God ; and she re- 
solved that where Naomi went, she would go ; where Naomi 
lodged she would lodge ; where Naomi died she would die ; 
and her religious testimony embraced the promised Seed : 
" Thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God." 
She is rewarded in the kingdom. See Matt. chap. 1. 

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1 and 2 Samuel. Truth is developed in Hannah's Song. 
It is the voice of the church in testimony of the destruction 
of Evil, and the triumph of Good ! 

God chooses a king. David conquers God's enemies, and 
is promised a son that shall reign while sun and moon endure. 

This is not Solomon. 

« But Solomon built a house for God." The kingdom was 
established with Solomon, and failed in his hand. 

After Solomon's death, the result of his conduct is, civil 
war, and the ten tribes are lost. The sonship from David, is 
only the right of him who shall bring to pass Hannah's Song; 
for David was promised such a son ; and being a prophet, 
David knew that God had sworn to him with an oath, that 
of the fruit of his loins, according to the flesh, God would 
raise up Christ to sit upon his throne ; and David said more- 
over, unto the Lord, " Who am 1, Lord God, and what is 
my house that thou hast brought, me hitherto; and this was 
yet a small thing in thy sight, Lord God ; for thou hast 
spoken also of thy servant's house for a great while to come." 
And is this the law of man, Lord ? The second Book of 
Kings carries out the apostacy, and represents judgment on 
the divided inheritance of the Lord ; but seals visibility on 
the kingly house, for a witness to God, according to the law 
and the prophets. 

The Chronicles of the Kings conclude with a proclamation 
of a king of the Gentiles. 

" Thus saith Cyrus, king of Persia, All the kingdoms of 
the earth hath the Lord God of Heaven given me ; and He 
hath charged me to build Him a house in Jerusalem, which 
is in Judah. Who is there among you of all His people ! 
The Lord his God is with him, and let him go up." 



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Ezra. This Book opens with the Proclamation of Cyrus 
at length ; and Cyrus brought forth all the holy vessels that 
Nebuchadnezzar had put in the house of his gods; and num- 
bered them unto Sheshbazzar* the prince of Judah. 

Ezra. The temple is built. 

Nehemiah. The city is built. Nehemiah aims at reform. 

Esther. The Serpent's attempt to destroy God's people! 
Providence rescues, by a woman. — 

And now, my respected friends, what is the result of my 
labour, if I stop here ? Does Revelation close upon me, 
hiding the Promise, and ending my search in despair ! I 
say No. If you allow me no path on solid ground, I will 
plunge me into the Sea, and its waves shall bear me up, that 
I perish not. The Sea is like unto glass for clearness ; and I 
see a Ship, and her colours represent the Lion and the Lamb. 
On board this Ship are messengers. I ask what tidings; 
and they reply, 

" Glad tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people ; 
and I receive the New Testament desiring to search out the 
whole matter; and the Promised Bruiser is my object of 
desire, of hope, of expectation, of faith. Shall I not see a 
terrible warrior, and quiver like an aspen life! I must 
inquire of your ancient prophets. 

" Rejoice greatly, daughter of Zion, shout daughter of 
Jerusalem, behold thy King cometh unto thee : He is just, 
and having Salvation — lowly, and riding upon an ass, and a 
colt the foal of an ass." 



I will now search by the New Book ; and first, if it is true 

* Joy in tribulation. 




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that the Promised Bruiser of Evil, is Zion's King, He must 
be David's Son ; and I will examine this matter. 

The New Book opens abruptly as the old. Without 

any preface, or apology, or proemial hint of uncertainty, 
doubt, or impropriety, Matthew begins: 

" The Book of the generation of Jesus Christ, the son of 
David, the son of Abraham:" 

And Matthew proceeds to Isaac, Jacob, and Judah, going 
strait on to David the king, and Solomon, down to Josiah ; 
and follows the captivity, and watches the return, making 
out in all, forty-two generations from Abraham to Joseph, 
the husband of Mary, of whom is born Jesus, who is called 
Christ. 

The Book of the generations of Jesus Christ the son of 
David ! And setting him down at Joseph's door, the hus- 
band of Mary, of whom is born Jesus which is called Christ ! 
— What law is this ? An infant without father or mother ; 
for Joseph owns him only in his wife's name, and He is 
called the son of David the king, and David is called the 
son of Abraham ; and Solomon follows David, and after 
Solomon twelve kings upon David's throne, whose remains 
mingle with the ground of Jerusalem ; and three princes 
beside, exiled from the royal city, and in the capital of the 
golden kingdom, Head of a strange people, Jewish princes 
born ; and after them more princes born in the Holy Land ; 
and the last branch of this genealogical tree, is introduced as 
the husband of Mary, of whom is born Jesus, which is called 
Christ ! 

Is this the true history of the Son of David, promised by 
Oath of God, who shall say unto God " Thou art my Father!" 
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Of whom God saith " I will make Him my first born, higher 
than the kings of the earth ?" Whose throne shall be as the 
days of heaven? Is this the Great Elect, the praise of every 
sacred Song, and the melody of Judah's Lyre ? 

" Thou art fairer than the children of men." 

" Grace is poured into thy lips. 

" Gird Thy Sword upon Thy thigh, 

* Most Mighty ; 

" And ride prosperously 

" Because of Truth ; 

" And meekness ; 

" And Righteousness ; 

" And thy right hand shall teach thee terrible things. 

" Thine arrows are sharp in the heart of the king's enemies, 

" Whereby the people fall under Thee. 

" Thy Throne, God, is for ever and ever. 

" The Sceptre of Thy kingdom is a right Sceptre. 

" Thou lovest righteousness ; 

" And hatest wickedness : 

" Therefore God, Thy God, hath Anointed Thee 
" With the oil of gladness, 
" Above Thy fellows ! 

" All thy garments smell of myrrh, and aloes, and cassia, 

" Out of the ivory palaces, 

« Whereby they have made Thee glad. 

« I will make Thy Name to be remembered in all gene- 
rations, therefore shall the people 

" Praise Thee for ever and for ever." 

If I accept of Matthew's testimony of Joseph's proper 
descent from " David the King," as the personal genealogy 



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of this Mysterious Innocent, that is born of Mary, I shall 
appear in sight of the honourable elect, as an unclean beast, 
even the hare, that runneth swiftly with imparted hoof, yea, 
and the swine that cheweth not the cud, and walloweth in 
the mire. What a burden ! I take it not literally therefore, 
as personal descent ; but proceed to another of the Books of 
the Book. 

Mark. "The beginning of the Gospel of Jesus Christ, 
the Son of God." 

I stop not here, at present. I travel on. Luke : " There 
was in the days of Herod the king" — Herod the king ? — 
What is this ? 

I read on. Wonderful chapter ! Another new thing. — 
An old man, of the priestly tribe, has a son, and his father 
calls him " The Prophet of the Highest ;" and I read, that 
this child grows up in the deserts; and when of proper age to 
minister in the temple, he is engaged at the river Jordan 
(Judgment,) baptizing the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and all 
Judea, on receiving their testimony that they are sinners. 
I remember that Solomon, in his day of regal, priestly 
honour, said, "there is no man — that sinneth not." 

After all the sinners are baptized by The Prophet of the 
Highest, who preaches awful doctrine to the multitude, 
calling them a generation of vipers; and orders them to 
renounce their antinomian boast, "We have Abraham to our 
father ;" for said the Prophet of the Highest, 

"God is able of these stones to raise up children unto 
Abraham." 

But when the people began to expect that he was the 
Christ, the Prophet announced the truth, and Herod shut up 



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this witness bearer in prison : (" Herod the King ?" No — his 
son), there cometh one young man, who had no confession of 
sins to make, unto whom the Prophet of the Highest said, 
"I have need to be baptized of thee; and comest thou to me?" 

The young man then made a plea of righteousness, and 
commanded the rite upon Himself. 

And when He was baptized, and came up out of the 
water, He prayed ; and the heavens were opened, and the 
Holy Spirit descended in a bodily shape like a dove, and 
lighted upon Him, and a voice came from Heaven which 
said, Thou art my Beloved Son ; in Thee I am well pleased. 

Now I have found the personal descent of Jesus, which is 
called Christ. 

And Jesus himself began to be about thirty years of age, 
being (as was supposed), the son of Joseph, which was the 
son of Heli, (N. B. This is Mary's father), which was the 
son of Matthat, which was the son of Levi, of Melchi, of 
Janna, of Joseph, of Amos, of Naum, of Eli, of Nagge, of 
Maath, of Mattathias, of Simeon, of Joseph, of Juda, of 
Joanna, of Rhesa. Here are seventeen names of Mary's 
natural kindred; and then follows Zorobabel, and twenty- 
one more, the last declared to be Nathan the son of David, 
which was the son of Jesse, which was the son of Obed, 
which was the son of Boaz, which was the son of Salmon, 
which was the son of Nahshon, which was the son of Ar- 
minidab, which was the son of Aram, which was the son of 
Esrom, which was the son of Pharez, which was the son of 
Judah, which was the son of Isaac, which was the son of 
Abraham. 

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many nations, are fifteen generations, that are reckoned in 
the line of Government ; and after Abraham, are numbered 
twenty more ; and the last is Adam, which was the son of 
God. This is the personal genealogy of Jesus, which is 
called Christ, by Matthew, the writer of the history of the 
King of the Jews; and it commences with Joseph, as son (in 
law) of Heli, of the house of David, but not in the royal line, 
that is, from Solomon, Rehoboam, &c. &c. 

This genealogy represents Jesus as the Son of man, Adam, 
originally, being the Son of God. 

It also marks plainly the Sonship of Jesus from David the 
king ; Solomon, and all his line of government, having no lot 
upon this record. 

With my eyes upon David's prophetic charge to Solomon, 
before all Israel, I cannot err in my present testimony, even 
that Jesus is the Son of David, from Nathan. 

"And thou Solomon, my son, know thou the God of thy 
father ; and serve Him with a perfect heart, and with a will- 
ing mind; for the Lord searcheth all hearts, and under- 
standeth all the imaginations of the thoughts : if thou seek 
Him, He will be found of thee ; but if thou forsake Him, He 
will cast thee off for ever! ! !" 

On this side of open patronage of the idol gods of the 
heathen, I view Solomon entirely incapacited for the honour 
of a name on the record of the promised Seed. What has 
Pharaoh's daughter, or any other of his seven hundred 
wives, to do with the Seed of the woman, that is promised to 
the elect, as Bruiser of the Serpent's Head ? 

I here solemnly declare (while my left hand rests upon the 
message of Gabriel to Mary, the espoused wife of Joseph), 



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that my right hand offends me not, while it traces in the 
stammering language, that is gathered up from various 
tongues, the following brief testimony, viz. Jesus, that was 
born of Mary " in the days of Herod the king," called the 
Son of the Highest, by a voice out of Heaven, is the inheriter 
of David's throne ; and likewise the second man. For this 
testimony I am to answer to God, even the Lord God, the 
Redeemer, even the Holy One of Israel. 

My Testimony now rests upon the testimony of four wit- 
nesses for the Gospel of Christ. 

1. The history of Zion's King. By Matthew. 

2. ' The servant of God ; and His elect. By Mark. 

3. The history of the Son of man. By Luke. 

4. The representation of the Son of God. By John. 
"To the Law and to the testimony." No deviation is 

allowed. Not one thread of grace, not the smallest cord of 
Redemption, can be drawn from any other counsel, than the 
Covenants of God ; and His revealed purpose. 

The power of miracles, personal holiness, prophetic teach- 
ing, or unexampled sufferings, are by themselves insufficient 
evidence of the investiture proclaimed on the Mount of 
Olives, " Hosanna to the Son of David." 

" Blessed is He that cometh in the Name of the Lord." 

"Hosanna in the Highest!!!" 

An apostle of " the Son of man" (who was an eye witness 
of the transfiguration of Christ, unto whom Moses and Elijah 
appeared, to confer with Jesus upon the subject so dark to 
the apostles, even the Cross), wrote to believers in the Gospel 
of Salvation by Christ, as follows: — "No prophecy of the 
Scripture is of any private interpretation — for the prophecy 



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came not in old time by the will of man ; but holy men of 
God, spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost." 

The four Evangelists have a long cloud of witnesses, either 
for or against them ; and these witnesses all cherish the doc- 
trine declared by the Lord God, in His judgment on the 
Serpent. Now the Head of the Serpent is, spiritually, his 
power, and death is prime minister to his kingdom; and 
literally, the Head of the Serpent is a man. This is the result 
of the first transgression against the Lord God ; death and 
the grave having their support from it, and by it, Adam's 
race being their prey. The revelation of this foe in human 
shape, is attended with all the power of Satan, in working 
by signs and every kind of lying wonders, by miracles, by 
wars, and by the reign of pride. The seed of the woman is 
decreed by the Lord God, to execute vengeance, even the 
vengeance of the Lord God, against this enemy, and thus 
destroys him that has the power of death, which is the devil, 
which appears to be a greater work than the creation of a 
material world out of nothing ; for the vengeance has to act 
on spirit, by confinement thereof in matter, even animal, for 
the enemy is called in the height of his wrath, a Beast! And 
the spirit of evil, is called Satan, and the devil, that old Ser- 
pent, the dragon, a murderer from the beginning. No des- 
truction of this dreadful enemy of God and man, is hoped for 
but by the Seed of the woman. It is the singular number, 
as its opposite. There is but one, and his coming to destroy 
the enemy is out of Heaven. 

He rideth upon the heavens as upon a horse, in His Ad- 
vent to Bruise the Serpent's Head. 

Question : How can this One be the Seed of the Woman ? 



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My testimony of necessity is turned by this question, to 
" the Hope of Israel ;" and as the disciples of Christ, said to 
the stranger who joined them in their walk to Emmaus, on 
Easter Sunday evening, and asked them why they were so 
sad, we hoped (alluding to the death of Jesus two days 
before) that it had been He which should have redeemed 
Israel, I, as a woman ready to embrace as reality, what man 
deems incredible, say, that this hope of two men who always 
attended Jesus in his travels to preach the Gospel, is a thread 
of the faith that was once delivered to the saints ; and as I 
hear the stranger break forth in these words : " fools and 
slow of heart, to believe all that the prophets have spoken," I 
am constrained to say, that these men lost their hold on the 
thread, but retained a personal attachment to Jesus; and 
their sorrow was too worldy to please Him. 

"Ought not Christ to have suffered these things, and to 
enter into His Glory?" 

I answer as a woman, certainly He ought, if He is the 
Promised Bruiser of the Serpent's Head ; for the judgment 
was proclaimed in the garden of Delights ; and there is no 
entrance there for « Likeness of sinful flesh," which likeness 
is Infirmity; and this is not the image of God. 

There is no mistake about it. Christ must die ; and the 
imperative requisition uttered by Jesus at Lazarus' grave, 
sounds in my ear, as I read the question in two parts ; and I 
say, certainly, Christ ought to enter into His Glory ! 

The Glory of man is God's Image. Immortality ! The 
writer of Jesus' personal history, as the Son of God, reports 
this doctrine in the following words: 

" Therefore doth my Father love me, because I lay down 
my life that I might take it again." 



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" No man taketh it from me, but I lay it down of myself." 
" I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take 
it again." 

" This commandment have I received from my Father." 

N. B. §§|§F* Remember, my soul, that this Life is Ori- 
ginal — it is immortality ! the other (the Blood) man did take. 
This is an offering for sin, (see the goat for the Lord). 

Over this Life — Immortality — God put a Vail ! 

"The likeness of sinful flesh;" and the putting off this 
Vail is as necessary as putting it on ; for it is the Blood that 
is in the likeness of sinful flesh, which taketh away sin from 
human nature ; and sin is the sting of death. The death of 
Christ is spoken of as the death of a Lamb, because He is a 
Sacrifice ; but as man, Christ's death put off mortality, and 
He must put on His heavenly image again ; and put it on 
the body He took of woman too, or He is not the Anointed 
Messenger of Life Eternal. He is not the Son of Man, but 
is Enosh. As Israel's Hope was promised to David's house, 
and the promise was spoken to David himself, by the Lord, 
who sealed the promise by oath of His holiness, the Books 
in the Psalms must have David's testimony, in the order of 
prophecy and of praise. 

So there is a much surer way of knowing who Christ is, 
upon the whole, than just to trace his lineal descent to the 
Son of Jesse ; for the character, the person, the condition, 
the rule, and blessedness of Zion's Great King, who is pro- 
mised to David's house, are all described in Holy Writ ; and 
if David, Moses, and Isaiah own Jesus of Nazareth, as Is- 
rael's Hope, the four Evangelists are safe, and the responsi- 
bility has a re-action to my view ; for Peter declared, that the 
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prophecy in old time came not by the will of man, but by 
the Holy Ghost. Now, I say that the Holy Ghost cannot 
mistake, err, or lie. 

My honourable friends, David, the man after God's own 
heart, surely spake by the Holy Ghost, the words recorded 
in Psalms, twenty-second, sixty-ninth, seventy-second, and 
the one hundred and ninth and tenth ; and these Psalms des- 
cribe the sufferings of Christ upon the Cross, his betrayal by 
Judas, the immortality of His Name, His personal exaltation 
at God's right hand, His everlasting Priesthood, and His 
judgment on the heathen. 

" A worm and no man ; 

" The Reproach of men — 

" Despised of the people — 

" They that see me laugh me to scorn — 

" They shoot out the lip, they shake the head, saying, 

" He trusted in God ; let Him deliver Him, seeing 
"He delighted in Him." 
N. B. The human body of Christ (the body that was 
nailed to the Cross, and that Cross fastened on a tree), had 
no male progenitor of Adam's race ; and the Holy Ghost 
confesses to His personal humiliation, on account of His hu- 
man birth ; for Mary brought forth Jesus, and Eve Cain ; 
but Eve was deceived by the Serpent ; and Mary was the 
elect of God. 

If Christ had come before all the Jews that were gathered 
to Jerusalem, to keep the Passover, as He appeared to Adam 
and Eve in the garden, after their Shame, I think every man 
would have run away ; and only poor weak woman would 
have cried lmmanu-EL ! 



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Had Christ come into the temple, as He appeared to Josh- 
ua, at Gilgal, with His Sword drawn in His hand (such a 
sword ! flaming, with two edges, Justice and Judgment !) 
the temple could not have sustained the ordeal like the Bush 
on Horeb, the Mount of God, for its workmanship was hu- 
man ; and, " in the days of Herod the king," and his suc- 
cessor, it was a place of merchandise ! Even His cloud in 
the first Temple, prostrated the priests (that brought the Ark 
of the Covenant of the Lord unto His place, into the Oracle 
of the house, to the Most Holy Place, and set it under the 
wings of the Cherubims), and they could not stand to minis- 
ter; but Solomon, as the elect Representative of Shiloh, 
which is Yah-Ho-Vah Shallum, spake ; and the very first 
sentence that he uttered, is pointedly expressive of that 
great mystery, the incarnation of the Son of God ! 

" The Lord said that He would dwell in the thick dark- 
ness !" 

" I am a worm, and no man." 
****** 

Christ was never heard to call Mary, mother. He called 
her Woman, and named her John's mother, while He hung 
upon the accursed tree, because Mary was the antitype of 
Eve as mother of all living, with her soul pierced by the Ro- 
man sword, as Eve's with Cain's. Jesus confessed her pro- 
perly, and John accepted the charge. 

Christ upon the Cross is Enosh. 

" I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of 
joint" (not broken — not one !) ; my heart is like wax, it is 
melted in the midst of my bowels !" 

N. B. The Holy Ghost, in this comparison of the heart, 
and its melting, represents Christ in despair ! Hark ! 



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" Eloi ! Eloi ! Lama Sabachthani ! Why hast Thou for- 
saken me ?" Hark ! " It is finished !" 

And the temple rocked like a ship on the sea, the Vail is 
rent from its top to the bottom, the earth quaked, the rocks 
rent, and many bodies of saints that slept, arose and came 
out of their graves ; and appeared unto many ! And half of 
the awful six hours, had the sun for a witness, in sackcloth, 
for darkness hung over all the land, from meridian to the 
ninth hour of the day !— Psalm 18. 4—7; Ex. 19. 20 ; Nah. 
1. 4; Psalm 29. 8, and 69. 2. 

I now return to Psalm twenty-second. 

* Dogs have compassed me — heathens ! 

" The assembly of the wicked have enclosed me : 

" They pierced my hands and my feet." 

These were officers and soldiers of the Iron kingdom. 

" They part my garments among them ; 

" And for my vesture they did cast lots." 

These were soldiers in Caesar's army. 

Compare verses 19 — 21 and 24, with Hebrews 5. 7; and 
Mark 39th verse of chapter 15th. 

The remainder of the Psalm is a prophecy of the Glory 
that shall be revealed in the Day of God 

Now I am at liberty to record the last clause of the 6th v. 
of Genesis 49, in comparison with Acts 2. 23; and Acts 13. 
46 with Mark 16. 15 ; and Matthew 28. 19. 

" In their anger they slew a man ; 

" And in ther self-will they digged down a wall." 

1 introduce next the fifty-third chapter of Isaiah. 

" Who hath believed our doctrine ? And to whom is the 
Arm of the Lord revealed?" 



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" A tender plant. 

" A root out of dry ground. 

Christ is described by this prophet in the eleventh chapter, 
as coming forth out of the Stem, &c. 

This is feminine, for that part of the tree is the bearer of 
fruit. 

"A root out of dry ground." — Luke 1. 48. 

" He is despised and rejected of men. 

" A man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief." 

See Mark 3. 5; Luke 19. 41; Matthew 26. 38; also the 
11th verse of Matthew 21st chapter, with John 19th chapter 
and the 15th verse. 

" We have no king but Caesar ! ! !" 
* * * * % # 

He was taken from prison and from judgment. On the 
night of His betrayal, Jesus was a prisoner in the palace of 
Caiaphas, the high priest of the Jews. N. B. The first time, 
that ever my precious Saviour was in that palace ! 

And straightway in the morning, the chief priests held a 
consultation with the elders and scribes, and the whole coun- 
cil, and bound Jesus, and hurried Him away to the judgment 
hall in the house of Jerusalem's Governor, and to Pilate 
(armed with a dart) delivered up the Just, as a criminal 
worthy of death, even demanding the ignominious death of 
the Cross. 

" Who shall declare His generation ? 

" For His life is taken out of the earth ?" 

In the open flower of manhood Jesus died ; and yet He 
could say to His Father, 

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" I have finished the work thou gavest me to do !" — Christ 
bare the woe on Aaron's house. — See 1 Sam. 

But what ! what is this ? He, who at Pilate's bar, con- 
fessed himself the King of the Jews, is hanged upon a tree, 
because a multitude of Jews, under law of their high priest, 
so confuse a representative of Csesar, that he cannot (seem- 
ingly) get rid of the crime ? 

Hath the Scripture an answer to this ? Yes. " For the 
transgression of my people is He stricken." — Thus God 
speaks for Him ; and who shall disannul the Judgment of 
God ? Wilt thou condemn me (said the Lord to Job), " that 
thou may est be righteous ?" 

"For the transgression of my people is He stricken." 
Whose people? Isaiah's? Nay. The Lord's. Isaiah is 
one of them. 

Who is stricken ? The Arm of the Lord ? Oh no ! It is 
the Righteous Servant, whose calling, character, conduct and 
success, are briefly described in the forty-second chapter of 
Isaiah. In the forty-ninth chapter, this Servant announces 
Himself ISRAEL, unto whom the Lord saith, " I will pre- 
serve thee, and give thee for a covenant of the people." 

" I will bring forth my Servant the BRANCH," saith the 
Holy Ghost by Zechariah the prophet, whose testimony in 
the seventh verse of the thirteenth chapter, is fulfilled as ex- 
hibited in the twenty-sixth chapter of Matthew's history of 
the King of the Jews ; and answers to the fourth verse of 
Isaiah fifty -third. 

The same character is introduced by the Lord of hosts, as 
The Man whose name is the BRANCH, who "shall grow 
up out of His place." — Isaiah says " grow up as a tender 
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Jesus was brought up at Nazareth; and "in His humilia- 
tion, His judgment was taken away;" but Jesus Himself 
declared its restoration, and defines the time appointed for 
its manifestation. I refer to the twenty-fifth chapter of 
Matthew's history of Christ the King of the Jews; and the 
manifestation has three divisions: I, The church. 2. The 
servants of the Man that taketh a long journey. 3. All 
nations; this is the Revelation of the Arm of the Lord. 
Compare John 5. 22, 23, Isaiah 11. 4, Isaiah 53. 11 ; and all, 
with the twelfth verse, and Isaiah 52. 13 — 15; and examine 
the fifty-first chapter. I believe that in the ninth verse, is 
prophesied the antitype of " Lazarus ! come forth ;" for it is 
manifest to my conscience (my soul's opinion of Christ), that 
His human nature covered the Arm of the Lord ; and that 
this covering was the preparation of God ; and that it was 
kept pure, spotless, perfect by obedience to God, by entire 
conformity to the Divine Law, showing forth the Praises of 
the Lord ; and received the blessing from the Blessed, even 
from the Lord, i. e. the covering procures the blessing which 
maketh rich and addeth no sorrow with it ; for the human 
nature procures Joy for Christ (who is the Joy of the Lord), 
" the Son of man" by His human nature : the Son of God by 
Divine nature ; and the latter is without beginning and with- 
out end. I find all this testimony in the Scripture of truth ; 
and gathered by the Spirit into the Gospel of Christ, who is 
the minister of the circumcision for the truth of God, to con- 
firm the promises made unto the fathers. 

The necessity of an Atonement to God for man's trans- 
gression of the law of life in the garden of Eden, was im- 
pressed upon the mind of Abel, Eve's second son ; and he 



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brought "the firstlings of his flock, and the fat thereof," unto 
the Lord. " The firstlings" — i. e. for his father and his elder* 
brother. The Lord respected Abel's offering ; and memoral- 
ized it as a pattern, in the organization of the sacrificial 
worship of the Sanctuary, constituting the whole as typical 
of the Original Promise, especially the Passover, and the 
sprinkling of blood, &c. 

To make this Atonement Christ came into the world, (at 
the time when He was looked for), in quite another character 
than a Lamb to be slain. He was expected to be a Ruler, 
a Governor, a King, who should restore the kingdom to 
Israel. Against miracles, and mighty signs and wonders, the 
Jews would raise no objections, provided they were wrought 
for their national deliverance, greatness and glory ; but He 
must be a warrior, like David, whom God should send; 
(rather a mysterious person ; see John 7. 27) and he must 
descend from David, and come out of Bethlehem, where 
David was bom. This King would establish Jerusalem, 
even as the throne of the Lord ; and laws be dispensed from 
it to the whole world. 

How great must have been the anxiety of the inhabitants 
of Bethlehem in the days of Herod the King, who evidently 
sought for the honour due only to Judah's Lord, Judah's 
Lion, Judah's Praise ? 

In those days there went out a decree from Caesar 
Augustus, that the whole world should be taxed. The 
Roman Empire was then over the whole world, as to 
dominion of the Gentiles, being the fourth, and last king- 



* Cain was wroth. He rejected ; and was marked. 



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dom that should be governed by human laws ; and in those 
days of taxing, even woman's poll was tributary, and she 
must appear (by Gentile law) propria personse, in her 
ancestral city, for her price to be paid on the spot registered 
as the proper inheritance of her fathers. 

Mary came to Bethlehem with Joseph her husband ; and 
there she brought forth her first born son, and wrapped him 
in a cloth, (probably a winding sheet ; for so pious a pair as 
Joseph and Mary would never undertake a pilgrimage with- 
out) and laid Him in a manger, because there was no 
room for them in the inn; for — they were poor. (See Luke 
2. 21; Leviticus 12. 8.) 

"Behold the Lamb of God," did Mary say? Nay. She 
beheld the heir to David's throne, "Behold the Lamb of 
God," did the angels sing ? Nay. They report the birth of 
a Saviour, unto Israel, which is Christ the Lord. 

Wise men come to Jerusalem. Did they inquire for 
the Lamb of God ? Nay they said, " Where is He, that is 
born King of the Jews? For we have seen His Star in the 
east, and are come to worship Him." 

Herod was troubled at the sound, and all Jerusalem with 
him. Well might Herod be alarmed; for his death was in the 
sound. Well might his adherents tremble ; for apostacy 
from God marked their sufferance of an Idumean for the 
King of Judea. The Jews feared Caesar. — See Prov. 29. 25. 

The inquiry of the wise men, is answered by the Jewish 
Sanhedrim to Herod the king; and Herod the king called 
the wise men privately, and inquired particularly what time 
the Star appeared ; and sent them to Bethlehem, and to find 
the young child — then return with report of his location, on 
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the pretence of going himself for the same object, even to 
worship the King of Zion. 

The wise men went forth ; and the Star went before them. 
They followed that guide, which stopped over the roof of 
the manger ; and they rejoiced with exceeding great joy ; 
and they fell down before the child, and worshipped Him. 
Then they opened their treasures ; and they presented to the 
"Bright and Morning Star" of Jacob, royal, priestly, and 
prophetic gifts, of gold, frankincense and myrrh. 

Gold is a body so dense, that corruption cannot get at it ; 
and is a figure of the immortal King of kings. Frankincense 
is a precious gum, chosen by the Lord for sanctuary use, 
except the sin offering, and denotes the praise that shall be 
given to Zion's King, " when He shall be a Priest upon His 
throne." 

Myrrh is a medicinal gum; but very bitter. It was chosen 
by the Lord for a fifth part of the holy ointment, that must 
never be imitated, nor poured on man's flesh, not even in 
consecrating Aaron and his sons, that they might minister 
unto the Lord, in the order of a holy priesthood. The 
tabernacle of the congregation, the Ark of the testimony, 
the table for the Bread of the Presence, and all His vessels, 
the candlestick and all His vessels, the Altar of burnt offering 
with all His vessels, with the laver and his foot. Never 
must it touch man's flesh ; but is ordered to be poured on 
the head, covered with a bonnet, made by Moses, for glory 
and for beauty. 

All these sacred emblems, gold, frankincense, and myrrh, 
are offered unto the woman's Seed, by sons of Abraham, 
come from a far country, to worship the King of the Jews ; 



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and by the last mentioned offering, we are to understand, 
that the sufferings of Christ are leaves upon the tree of Life, 
ordained for the healing of the nations; and most especially, 
shall Israel confess, 
" By His stripes we are healed." 

God warned the wise men, in a dream, not to return to 
Herod (I now drop "the king") and they departed from 
Bethlehem, to return to their country by another way. 

Immediately on their departure, God warned Joseph by 
an angel, saying, "Arise, take the young child, and His 
mother ; and flee into Egypt ; and be thou there until 1 bring 
thee word ; for Herod will seek the young child to destroy 
Him." 

Herod's disappointment issued in hellish wrath, and he 
sent forth, and slew every child in Bethlehem and the coasts 
thereof, from two years and under, according to the time of 
the appearing of the Star, as the wise men had said. 

Herod was cut down like the grass : Herod the great, who 
devoted ten years to the enlargement of the temple, and 
Jerusalem, withers like the green herb. 

The Sceptre then entirely departed from Judah and the 
appointment of Archelans to succeed his father, by Cassar, is 
of no consequence ; for Herod's death broke the charm, the 
Jews knowing that Messiah must build the temple of the 
Lord. The Tetrarch, however, had the same beastly heart 
and thirsted for the Innocent Blood. 

The Holy family are recalled by the angel of the Lord, 
and Joseph is commanded to dwell in Galilee. 

Is there any open testimony in the temple, concerning the 
Holy child Jesus, at that time ? Is the melody of Isaiah's 
prophetic harp heard within those doors ? 



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" Unto us a child is born, 
Unto us a Son is given : 
And He shall be named The Secret : 
The Counsellor : The Mighty God, 
Father of Eternity, 
The Prince of Peace !" — 
No indeed ! The Jews, however divided on other points, 
were of one trembling heart, in their fear of the iron sceptre ; 
and beside this, we may suppose that Christ was the hidden 
manna, and as His birth was The Secret of God, His con- 
cealment from the Sanhedrim is not a lawful object of human 
inquiry, or reasoning. No report being made of Him from 
the time of Herod's wrath, the Jews were not looking for 
the Star reported King, which we may know was the case, 
by their expectations leaning toward John the Baptist, 
which is evidence of their dark, bewildered state, John 
having no mark of the Kingship in all his course. 

So far I come in my testimony to Jesus of Nazareth ; and 
I pass from His birth scene, to the tomb, the hewed rock, 
where Joseph and Nicodemus deposited the slain Lamb of 
God, which taketh away the sin of the world ! The sac- 
rifice is complete ! Not a bone is broken. The driving of 
the nails into His hands and feet, touched not one ! He 
yielded up the Ghost, therefore His legs were not broken. 
They are as pillars of marble in Joseph's new tomb. The 
Roman spear went between his ribs, and the wound was 
deep, even to the heart, drawing out the last drop of the 
price required for man's Redemption. Jesus keeps His 
Sabbath in sacred silence. His Spirit is in the hands of His 
Father; and angels are sent from Heaven to watch the 
tomb. 



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The holy Sabbath passes away, and in the twilight of 
morn, there cometh to the garden where Joseph's sepulchre is 
made,* three holy women, whose discipleship was unstained, 
and spotless as the new fallen snow. No denial of their sa- 
cred Teacher, had polluted the lips of these women. No 
mark of feminine weakness could be seen on them, except 
the flowing tears of sorrow that was too deep for human 
sympathy to reach, and too great for angels to allay. Oh ! 
how noble is the conduct of these daughters of Abraham and 
Zion ! They had followed the lowly, the Righteous Prophet, 
in His holy travels throughout all the land of Judah ; and in 
every city, and in every village, they heard Him preach the 
Kingdom of God. (See Daniel 4. 34, 2. 44, 7. 27 ; Obadiah 
21). " How beautiful upon the mountains (these women 
could say), 

" Are the feet of Him, that bringeth good tidings ; 

" That publisheth peace ; 

" That bringeth good tidings of Good ; 

"That publisheth Salvation:" 
The Blessed (One with the Father), always spoke kindly 
to these women. He never called one of them His Adver- 
sary (Luke 8. 33) or said to them " ye of little faith." 1 
testify of Jesus, that He had not one male relation, " accord- 
ing to the flesh," upon earth with Him, by name of father or 
brother ; and one only of my own sex ; and she was not of 
age to be accounted marriageable (according to the rules) 
when Jesus was announced to her by the Angel of the Word; 
for we read only of her espousals to Joseph at that time. 



* According to Luke. 



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I believe in Christ's descent from David to Heli (Ascend- 
ing) ; and from Heli, as father in law to Joseph, I view 
Christ The Separated One, the miracle of miracles, woman's 
possession, whom Eve recognized as " The Man Yah-Ho- 
Vah !" 

My honourable friends, I have no gifts of gold, of frankin- 
cense, and myrrh, to pour out at the feet of the holy child 
Jesus. I have neither youth, influence, or strength — physi- 
cal, moral, or intellectual — to hallow at His infant Shrine. I 
this day number fifty-eight years, as the sum of a vapour, 
and having suffered by much sickness for a series of the days 
of the years of my transitory life, I regard my little breath a 
most ignoble offering for martyrdom. Yet, with sober con- 
sciousness of unworthiness in meetness (inherent is not to be 
named by Adam's race) I humbly offer my last pulse-beat 
(yet praying pardon this intrusion, ! my God !) to echo the 
ball, the fire or sword, as the seal of sincerity upon this testi- 
mony to the Shiloh, in " the woman's" arms at Bethlehem, 
worshipped, The King of the Jews ! Now sought by women 
at Joseph's tomb ! 

I return to the holy women ; and repeat, " How noble is 
their conduct!" — "Last at the Cross, and earliest at His 
grave !" 

Matthew wrote his Book of the Gospel of Christ, very 
soon after the miraculous conversion of Saul to the Christian 
faith ; for this event appears to give him an opportunity, as 
the disciples enjoyed a little peace ; and I shall first notice 
Matthew's account of Easter Sunday morn. 

"In the end of the Sabbath, as it began to dawn toward 
the first day of the week, came Mary Magdalene and the 
other Mary, to see the sepulchre." 



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"And behold there was a great earthquake ; for the angel 
of the Lord descended from Heaven, and rolled back the 
stone from the door, and sat upon it." 

" His countenance was like lightning ; and his raiment 
white as snow." 

"And for fear of Him the keepers did shake, and became 
as dead men." 

The gates of Jerusalem are opened at six o'clock; and 
"some of the watch" (probably the part of the guard on 
relief, and might have been awakened by the earthquake), 
" came into the city, and told all the things that were done," 
as they supposed. I mean — 

" The stone is rolled away ; 

" The tomb is open ; 

" The body is not in the tomb ; 

" The linen is there ; 

" The keepers lie upon the ground apparently dead." 

It was a Jewish concern altogether; and Pilate gave them 
the opportunity, by command. The men, therefore, went to 
their employers, the chief priests. 

It could not have been past five o'clock, when the women 
were addressed by the white robed messenger from Heaven, 
who said to them, 

" Fear not ye ; 
" For I know that ye seek Jesus which was crucified: 
" He is no t here; for He is risen as He said. 
" Come see the place where the Lord lay." 
Thus far I proceed with the testimony of the first writer of 
the Gospel of Christ. 

I now pass on to the fourth, which is the last; and my 



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reason for so doing, is the same as was given by the elders of 
the church at Ephesus (according to Eusebius, who was a 
disciple of Polycarp, and the latter of John) when they urged 
the aged apostle to write the Gospel. John had been an eye 
and ear witness of all the public ministry of Christ ; attended 
Him to Gethsemane with Peter and James ; stood by His 
Cross with Mary the mother of Jesus, Mary the wife of Cleo- 
pas, and Mary Magdalene ; and went to the sepulchre with 
Peter, and went into the sepulchre, and saw the linen clothes, 
and the e napkin that was wrapped about the thorn-pierced 
Head, wrapped together in a place by itself. 

An eye witness is always of primary consequence. John 
(on his return from Patmos) is addressed by the elders of the 
church at Ephesus on this subject, representing the necessity 
of his completing the record of Gospel truth. 

John finds no fault with Matthew, Mark, or Luke. Ml 
that is complete in their Gospels, John leaves out of his own ; 
but certain events, not recorded by them (as the -miracle at 
the wedding feast in Cana of Galilee, the scene at Jacob's 
well, the healing of the man (that had been sick thirty-eight 
years) at Bethesda's Pool, Nicodemus' visit by night to Jesus, 
the resurrection of Lazarus, the washing His disciples' feet, 
the last sermons of Christ, and His wonderful prayer follow- 
ing) John wrote forty years after Luke, fifty-three years after 
Mark, and fifty-seven years after Matthew. 

There is nothing doctrinal, discrepant in either, or any of 
the Gospels; but circumstantially, there is some difficulty; 
and while it is not my duty to criminate or excuse, it is my 
privilege to examine all, and my preservation to abide by the 
strongest evidence ; for " in the multitude of counsellors there 
is safety." 



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There is not in all the Holy Scriptures,' from the words, 
"Now the serpent/' &c., Gen. 3. 1, to the expression, " Lest 
I come and smite the earth with a curse," any event that can 
be reckoned of equal importance with the resurrection of 
Christ from the dead ! What do I say ? Must I suffer this 
to remain ? Let us consider. Is the Creation to meet it ? I 
answer in the fear of God, not apart from Christ, who is the 
beginning, as Moses wrote, 

"In the Beginning." — Gen. 1. 1. 
"I AM The Beginning."— Rev. 
" Alpha — Omega." 

Mysteries exist, my honourable friends; and we know 
they exist; but their nature is beyond our comprehension. 
Of all mysteries, Christ is the most inexplicable height, depth, 
and extent, therefore His Gospel is called the mystery of God. 

When I speak of the importance of my Saviour's revival 
from death on the third day, in comparison with every thing 
else revealed as done or taken place, I shrink as it were into 
nothing before Him, while I review my words. Upon this 
momentous theme, comparison like the above, is "as snow 
i in summer," melting away as it touches the ground of truth. 
The revival of Christ from the tomb, Paul said, was " accord- 
ing to the scriptures." So it is ; but not revealed in as direct 
terms as " Behold a virgin shall conceive, and bare a son, 
and shall call His Name Im-Manu-El ; but the prophetess, 
who was to bare the son that is called by the Holy Ghost, 
Maher-Shallal-Hash-Baz, was a faint type of Mary, Isaiah's 
name signifying Salvation of the Lord (God is Salvation — 
Jesus is Saviour) ; and her son a type of deliverance to David's 
house ; for the confederacy between Syria and apostate 1s- 
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rael (the ten tribes held the Name of Christ upon Jacob) 
regarded the revelation of the Serpent's Head, which is Anti- 
Christ, therefore the birth of Maher-Shallal-Hash-Baz, is a 
sign from the Lord of the result of the Sign which the Lord 
Himself gave to David's house, the child of the prophetess 
being incorporated with the Sign in his birth at a season of 
great peril, and by typical import of his name only; for be- 
fore he was of age to act, or even to know which side to take, 
the Usurper and his confederates were destroyed. In this I 
mark a type of Herod's death, while the holy child Jesus 
was eating butter and honey in Egypt. 

The resurrection of Christ from the dead is not as power- 
fully set home upon us, by the holy Speech, as His Ascen- 
sion to Heaven. 

" God is gone up with a shout ; 

" The Lord with the sound of a trumpet. 

" Sing praises to God, sing praises; 

" Sing praises to our King, sing praises." 

u Thou hast ascended on high ; 

" Thou hast led captivity captive ; (here is an allusion to 
the resurrection). 

" Thou hast received gifts ;" (another allusion to the glory 
upon Christ's human nature ; see His prayer, John 17th, and 
Matthew 28th. 18). 

" Lift up your heads, ye gates, 

« Even lift up ye everlasting doors, 

" And the King of Glory shall come in." 

The most direct testimony of Christ's resurrection from the 
dead, is recorded in one of David's golden Psalms : 



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" I have set the Lord always before me: 

" Because He is at my right hand, 

" I shall not be moved see also verse 9. 

"For thou wilt not leave my soul in Scheol, 

"Neither wilt thou suffer Thy Holy One 

" To see corruption. 

"Thou wilt show me the path of life." 
But the resurrection of Christ from the dead is very abun- 
dantly taught in the Holy Scriptures, by a method divinely 
appointed even in the creation of the world, and, commenced 
with the planting of the garden of Eden, is continued with 
Noah, Abraham, Joseph, and Gideon, and from the begin- 
ning to the end of the ceremonial Law, wherein is never 
omitted, " Thus saith the Lord." 

I will instance the sun for Christ, the moon for the church, 
and the stars for angels ; and I will cite the sun to answer to 
the ordination of God, as a sign, and in season, appropriate 
to my subject. In the Heavens (that is, above the heaven 
which is visible, and was originated an expansion, and named 
by the name of God's throne), God hath set a tabernacle for 
the sun. 

This I believe is the glory that Christ prayed for in His 
humiliation, i. e. human nature, that is His human person 
(human from Mary); and I believe, that Christ is the Sun in 
the Heaven of heavens, which is God's throne, uncreate, like 
Himself. 

The sun in the tabernacle is represented as 

"A bridegroom, coming out of his chamber, 
"And rejoiceth as a strong man, to run a race. 
" His going forth is from the end of the heaven." 



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This is the singular number, and its end is this earth, and 
the circuit is a new creation at the end of His race, which is 
His reign, until every enemy is put under His feet. 

Christ from the tomb is the Sim of Righteousness, the Se- 
cond Man, the Lord from Heaven, for God raised him from 
the dead. 

John, the beloved disciple (as Joseph was Jacob's beloved) 
reports the revival scene on this wise : 

"The first day of the week cometh Mary Magdalene, 
when it was yet dark, unto the sepulchre ; and seeth the 
stone taken away from the sepulchre." 

N. B. John does not mention " the other Mary," as Mat- 
thew, nor the mother of James; and Joanna the wife of 
Herod's steward, as Luke ; nor the mother of James, and 
Salome (Pilate's wife). As his three predecessors in the great 
work of writing the Gospel of Christ, had suffered martyrdom 
during his banishment to Patmos by Domitian, there might 
be no means given to John for examination ; and he per- 
fectly knew, not only from Matthew, Mark, and Luke, but 
by hearing Mary Magdalene's report to Simon Peter (see 
Mark 16. 7) following her speedy return to the garden, and 
leaving her behind,, weeping when he departed for his own 
home, while the others John saw not all that morning ; for 
they ran away in a great fright, and according to Mark, spoke 
not to any man, for they were afraid. Joanna certainly might 
expect to lose her head directly; and she did not see Jesus, it 
might be, that she feared to trust the vision. 

Mark follows up the angel testimony with these decided 
words, 

"Now when Jesus was risen early the first day of the 



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week, He appeared first to Mary Magdalene, out of whom 
he had cast seven devils." 

Matthew and Luke mention her name first, and distinguish 
her no more. 

1 return to John. 

" Mary stood without at the sepulchre weeping ! 

And as she wept she stooped down and looked into the sepul- 
chre." Ah ! dearly purchased soul ! Art thou thinking thy 
Lord lay here ; and this dark tomb is the holiest spot on 
earth ? 

"And (then) she seeth two angels in white, sitting, one at 
the head, the other at the feet where the body of Jesus had 
lain." 

"And they say unto her, Woman, why weepest thou? 

" She saith unto them, Because they have taken away MY 
Lord out of the sepulchre, and 1 know not where they have 
laid Him !" 

It is my sentiment that Mary Magdalene held to literality,* 
not understanding the connection of Gethsemane, the palace 
of the high priest, and Pilate's Hall of Roman judgment, with 
Golgotha; or more expressively, Calvary {the place of a skull) 
and she did not expect the Revival of her sacred Teacher, 
her soul's Deliverer, her tender Shepherd, her only Hope, 
until the fourth watch of Easter Sunday night. 

Hosea's prophecy belonging to the ten lost tribes, is scarce 
thought to contain a special document of Shiloh's preserva- 
tion, but only of their own ; as on account of the covenant of 
the unchangeable God with their fathers Abraham, Isaac, 
Jacob, and Israel, they must re-appear. 



* Matt. 12. 40. 



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Beside, Mary of Bethany (sirnamed Magdalene on account 
of a suspected criminal connection with the prince of Mag- 
dala) had never a mind for religious things, until she met the 
Prince of Peace, whose visit to the coasts of Magdala, is 
recorded by Matthew in the concluding verse of the fifteenth 
chapter of his history of the King of the Jews. From the 
pure lips of Jesus (of whom the officers of the temple that 
were sent by the chief priests to apprehend Jesus, and bring 
him before the Sanhedrim, testified, « Never man spake like 
this man") Mary Magdalene had received the words of God; 
and of her only, of all the women that followed Him, is the 
record made, that she sat at His feet to hear His Word; and 
of her alone, were those weary feet washed with tears, wiped 
with hair, and anointed for His burying. 

As I have adverted to Hosea, in regard to the resurrection 
of Christ from the dead, I am called by. the rules, Law and 
Testimony, to cite him for a witness ; and his name means 
Salvation, while his testimony of his calling, represents the 
command of God, that he must have mourned over, as an 
abhorror of idolatry, and the only sign in his urgent behalf, 
is, Ruth the emblem of grace. 

" in their affliction they will seek me early ! 

" Come and let us return unto the Lord ; 

" For He hath torn, and He will heal us ; 

« He hath smitten, and He will bind us up ; 

« After two days will He revive us ; 

" In the third He will raise us up ; 

" And we shall live in His sight. 

" Then shall we know, if we follow on to know, the Lord, 
" His going forth is prepared as the morning ; 



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" And He shall come unto us as the rain, 
" As the latter and former rain unto the earth." 
This "sure word of prophecy" is indeed a Light that shineth 
in a dark place. The political, moral, and religious hemis- 
phere of Israel, resembled night without a star, yea, black 
with darkness favourable to the creeping forth of all unclean, 
ravenous beasts of prey. Hosea stood in his lot as a hewer 
of wrought stones, but the more he hewed Israel the more 
evil shaped she grew, until Lo-ammi was branded on her 
idolatrous brow by the judgment of the Lord, and there is 
no trumpet to sound a repeal of this sentence, until the Shield 
of the Mighty, the Seed of the woman, shall rise to take the 
prey. 

In this "sinful kingdom," which might be called Baalze- 
bub's pride (for Israel were nearly as wicked as the majority 
of men in the States of North America), two notable miracles 
had appeared of revival from death, as witnesses of the Law 
of the Spirit of Life, and Gospel of Glory. Elijah (who 
raised the widow's son), was taken up into Heaven by a 
very hot way — his chariot and horses were fire. Elisha, 
who raised the great woman's son, afterward passed the 
figurative Jordan, submitting to Judgment according to the 
decree ; but the double portion of the Spirit seemed to be 
buried with Elisha, even in his bones, while his own spirit 
was separate, and higher than his predecessor, the type of 
the water of life, and Spirit of fire ; for Israel's God is a con- 
suming flame. 

This sinful kingdom was ordained for literal destruction ; 
but Israel herself, torn in the rejected Lamb, smitten in the 
smitten reed, and dead in Christ while He lay in Joseph's 



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tomb, is ransomed from the power of death (which is the 
devil), after t wo days from the Lord's going forth (out of the 
tomb), which is prepared as the morning ; and in the third 
she shall be raised up, and live in His sight. 

" Why seeing times are not hidden from the Almighty, do 
they that know Him not know His days?" 
v *J^ne day isl wirlBi the Lord as a thousand y^ars, and a 
thousand years as one day ; and the reckoning o£ time to 
Israel is by the moon, twelve moons to one year. 

Shall the soul of prophecy, the woman's Seed, be indenti- 
fied with outcast Israel, in his death, resurrection, and glory ? 
Yes. Jesus is Son of the Highest: Christ is the Son of 
David, the son of man. 

" It pleased the Lord to bruise Him the body is one ; 
and still He confessed both; and the Lamp of prophecy 
shines bright for the Literalist, even Mary Magdalene, 
although her tear-dimmed eyes beheld it not ; for she came 
to the Sepulchre exactly in the order of the prophetic word. 

Prophecy is a wonderful thing. It is the understanding of 
God ; and line upon line, line upon line, with precept on pre- 
cept, here a little, and there a little, the Holy Ghost in ancient 
time drew from this unfathomable source of consolation, and 
gave to whom He would, and as He pleased. Man's will 
has nothing to do with ordering it. Man's part was to 
speak, and yet not he, but God speaking by him. None but 
humble souls that forsake their own way, to go in the way 
of the Lord, can be edified by the sayings of God : neither 
Jew or Christian can rightly know them, but by inspiration 
of the same Spirit^ The honoured woman, that tarried at 
the tomb, while apostles shrank from the danger of their 



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lives, was deeply imbued with the Spirit of prophecy, or she 
would never have entitled a dead man her Lord ; for she 
heard Jestjs say, " I am the Resurrection and the Life." She 
fully believed: the male disciples hoped. It is better to 
believe that Jesus is the Christ, than to hope He is the Christ. 
I can see no propriety in putting faith in the rear of hope. 
If Mary Magdalene had done this, she might never have seen 
Christ after He was risen. She believed in Christ upon the 
Cross, and in the tomb. Why did she turn away from the 
beautiful white robed messengers ? John wrote, 

"And when she had said thus (see verse 14), she turned 
herself back, and saw Jesus standing ; and knew not that it 
was Jesus." 

"Jesus said unto her, Woman, why weepest thou? whom 
seekest thou ?" 

Poor Mary could not stop to answer; but quickly said, 
" Sir if thou have borne Him hence, tell me where thou hast 
laid Him ; and I will come and take Him away." 

" Jesus saith unto her, Mary !" Mary bowed herself (I 
suppose it should be) and said Rabboni. 

It has been said that Christ sent Mary to declare His resur- 
rection from the dead to His disciples, omitting the other 
part, even His ascension. John has done at the end of his 
Gospel, what the other three did not. He proved his identi- 
fication, that he was the disciple who leaned on Jesus' bosom, 
and witnesses testified that his Gospel was true ; and this was 
necessary, after the lapse of so many years after Matthew, a 
fellow disciple, and one of the twelve with John. 

John writes that Jesus commanded Mary to say to His 

brethren (so He called His disciples after His resurrection), 
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" I ascend to my Father 
And your Father ; 
And to my God 
And your God." 
This message involves the Kingship of Christ; and His 
Divinity, both which subjects, John had more abundantly 
illustrated in his Gospel, than his predecessors. 

It is apparent that the Blessed Jesus in the new life of His 
body, was unchanged in character, "meek and lowly in 
heart." 

John records the confession of Christ at Pilate's bar, that 
He was a King, and that He was born for the purpose of 
bearing witness unto the truth. 

But " My kingdom is not of this world." 

The Roman world; the feet and the toes of the Gentile 
Dominion. 

Babylon had one member — the head. 

Medo-Persia two — breast and arms. 

Greece two — legs and thighs. 

Rome twelve — feet and toes. 

Christ was not sent into the Roman world to condemn the 
Roman world. See John's Gospel 3. 17. 

Rome, Greece, and Medo-Persia, had never the special 
call of Babylon, "according to the Scriptures." Cagsar is 
not designated as the servant of God, to execute His judg- 
ment on Jerusalem and her children, as Nebuchadnezzar; 
but the Roman army is certainly foreshown ; and their com- 
mander a besieger in all the gates of the holy land. Deut. 
28. 49, 50, 51 ; if they refuse to obey the voice of the Lord 
their God. Oh ! who can read the history of the sacking, 



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burning, and slaughter in Jerusalem, the holy city, in the 
year 70 (vulgar reckoning of the Christian Era), by the re- 
sistance (I may truly say), of the Jews against evil, and 
refusal of the Jews to yield up rights, without exclaiming, 
this is all recorded in Deut. 28 ; and there is seen the stum- 
bling stone, the voice of the Lord God, calling Israel to hide 
in holiness, which is entire obedience to the voice of the 
Lord God. 

The Message of the resurrection of Christ from the dead, 
concluding with the words, 

"I ascend," &c, established former testimony of Christ, 
concerning Himself as the Son of man, and the Son of God ; 
but of this, the fainting hearts of His disciples, seemed to be 
quite insensible ; for it is written by Luke and Mark, that 
they believed not, while the terms of the message, so con- 
necting them with the great and dreadful God, they were 
unprepared to hear, for they had all of them forsaken Christ 
in His distress. What report could He bear of them ? And, 
if God was their Father as He was Christ's Father, how 
could He say that He came down from Heaven? If God 
was Christ's God in the covenants only, why did He declare, 

"I and my Father are one?" 
" The son of David" is not mentioned in the message of the 
resurrection of Christ from the dead ; nor any son indeed ; but 
Go, say that I ascend, &c. It is clear to my mind, that angels 
published the resurrection to the women, and Christ himself 
announced only His ascension ; but only /, not your Lord 
and Master, not your Saviour, your Redeemer, the King of 
Israel — H I, ascend," &c. If the message had been only thus, 
"Mary, go tell my disciples, the Son of man ascends up 



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where He was before," other words spoken to the disciples 
by the Losd Jesus, might have rushed on their minds, and 
convinced them of the reality, such as •• I will come again, 
and will receive you unto myself, that where I am there ye 
may be also." 

It is not, however, strange (in the nature of things), that 
the eleven apostles should distrust the woman's words on 
that morning. The doctrine of a Divine Atonement, they 
had never understood, any more than their fathers ; and we 
do not read that even Moses was aware of the result, when 
he said ro the church of God, u The Lord thy God will raise 
up unto thee a prophet from the midst of thee, of thy breth- 
ren, like unto me.'' Moses knew the extent of their sin in 
stripping off their bridal ornaments to make a god to go 
before them, instead of Moses ; and their worship of the calf 
instead of God, as it is written, " they changed their glory 
into the similitude of an ox that eateth grass and Moses 
did offer himself to the Lord at that time, for a curse with 
them if the Lord would not forgive : but the Lord did not 
accept the offer. None but the Seed of the woman, who 
should be the second man. and the Lord from Heaven, 
could represent Adam in his creation, the Son of God ; and a 
human, living sacrifice must be prepared, of one equal with 
Adam in creation, "the image of God,'* having "the breath 
of lives/' as Adam had, by the Breath, i. e. the Spirit of God, 
and Lord of all creation (except the tree of Life), as Adam 
was ; for Adam, though his body was made of moulded 
earth, had his lives from Heaven. Moulded earth brought 
forth the Sign of Satan's destruction, with all his works ; and 
death in his very worst form, must put his icy power on the 



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spotless sacrifice in shape of Israel's sin, and on account of 
man's primal transgression ; for God is independent of man 
in Redemption of His creation, as in its coming forth very 
good. The proof of the sacrifice is, sustaining the ordeal, as 
death, in the single article, could not defeat the original 
enemy. No bruising of the Serpent's Head was visible in 
the crucifixion ; but an awful defeat of his once successful 
opponent, is manifested when a lifeless body is sealed up in 
the tomb. 

The darkened heavens ! the convulsed earth ! the rending 
rocks ! the tearing asunder of the vail of the temple, were 
united in one awful speech against sin, that brought death 
into the world, when Jesus yielded up the Ghost ! 

It might be said to Death, as the Jews said to Pilate, " if 
thou let this man go, thou art not Satan's friend ! For he 
that speaketh against sin, is speaking against Satan; and 
Death, thou art but a deputy, and Satan hath thy power, and 
not thee ; for thou art but a shadow." 

Death might reply : Thy sting was not in this victim ; and 
I could not take Him but by His own surrender. He drop- 
ped into my arms, as though I were His friend, releasing 
Him from agony and agonies, which have shaken all my do- 
main ; and I have no more power to hold, than to take Him, 
except He is willing. True ; and it was impossible for Christ 
to remain in the grasp of Satan's first king upon earth ; for 
the life He laid down, was received into the hands of the Fa- 
ther, who raised His body from the dead in the glory of Life 
Eternal, so, that well may it be witnessed of Christ, " who 
only hath immortality !" 
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in Christ, the preparation for a heavenly, eternal priesthood, 
which was closely connected with His Kingship upon David's 
throne. The necessity of such an interference with the say- 
ing of God, as " there shall no man see me and live," was 
never apprehended by the Apostles, till after the Ascension, 
the power of the resurrection being veiled, until the arrival 
of the promise of the Father, the Holy Spirit, who came as 
the Herald of the Wonderful, that Jesus was exalted at the 
right hand of God, and made intercession for His people in 
person of the Jew ! 

The reality of Christ's resurrection from the dead, was 
afterward fully tested by His eleven (kept) Apostles. Their 
eyes beheld, their ears heard, their hands handled the Word 
of Life. 

The reality of the ascension of Jesus to Heaven (as the 
Apostles saw Him go up) was maintained by angels, while 
Jesus rode aloft upon the mysterious cloud ; and the un- 
changed state of the Risen, was memorialized by dying Ste- 
phen, while a shower of stones was (instrumentally) dissolv- 
ing his connection with the first Adam, as an exile from Eden, 
the garden of the Lord. 

Mary Magdalene stands alone, in the honour of seeing 
Jesus first after His Revival from the dead; but holy angels 
opened His tomb. They could not, however, tell where He 
was ; but they could tell where He was not ; and that was in 
the tomb. An angel rolled the Stone, the great stone, away, 
and where was Jesus ? In the sepulchre was the linen ! Two 
angels sat in the sepulchre j but appeared not till Mary was 
left alone (as to mortal company) in the garden. 

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ascension; but afterward, only one hundred and twenty- 
names are recorded upon the first page of the Kingdom of 
God upon earth ; and of the hundred and twenty, which or 
who stands up boldly, openly, and faithfully, to proclaim the 
coronation of Zion's King? John, the Joseph in Israel's 
house ? Nay. Mary, the mother of Shiloh ? Nay. Mary 
Magdalene, the messenger of the last Adam ? Nay. 

Is it set forth by the one hundred and twenty, as by one 
voice in many languages? Nay. They indeed spoke, all, 
every one of them, in such fashion of the lip, that a multitude 
gathered out of fourteen different nations, individually under- 
stood, and collectively confessed that they heard testimony 
of — what ? " The wonderful works of God !" 

And all the foreigners, who had been drawn to Jerusalem 
by the fame of Jesus' ministry, " were in doubt, saying one 
to another, " What meaneth this ?" 

"Others" (I am not slow in my conclusions who) "others 
mocking, said, These men are full of new wine?" 

My honourable friends, this was spiritually true, but lite- 
rally false. It was a wilful malicious lie, spoken by the 
devil, through his most obedient servants, great professors of 
religion. 

It turned out " for the furtherance of the Gospel." Thanks 
be unto God ! ! ! 

Peter (a rock), which was Simon Barjona (seeing son of 
the Dove) who had been the boldest, and anon the most 
cowardly, a man without pretence of science, or dignity of 
parentage, or the influence of wealth, stood up, and plainly, 
in very sober accent, with positive effect, denied the allega- 
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told by the prophet Joel (God commanding); and proceeds to 
bear testimony to the coronation of Jesus in Heaven ! ! ! 

My honourable friends, I am bound by a sense of duty to 
my conscience, to yours, and above all, to the demand of 
Israel's Mighty God, to advance, at this critical point of my 
testimony for your King, scripture evidence of the above, as 
I read in my mother language ; for beyond this temperature 
of the lively Oracles, I have no power to go; and perhaps the 
Original Letter of the proof may not extend farther than the 
lip of Abraham's native country. Be it so, if the Lord per- 
mit ; for I have His own sacred Seal upon the acceptance of 
my author, as far as human agency is concerned. — Ezekiel 
14. 12—20; Matthew 24. 15; Mark 13. 14. 

My assertion is, that Peter published at Mount Zion the 
coronation of Jesus in Heaven, on the fiftieth day after the 
Passover of the Holy Lamb. 

Peter declared the Coronation of Jesus, in just twice seven 
words (English) : twelve words of one articulation, one of 
two (Jesus), one of three, which is, crucified! 

See Acts 2. 36 : " God hath made, that same Jesus whom 
ye have crucified, both Lord and Christ." 

Acts 2. 25, 34. 35. Peter cited David the king, for special 
witness ; so shall your poor woman servant, my lords the 
Jews. 

Peter did not cite Daniel. I must; for my lot is cast in the 
midst of signs portentous of "the time of the end." 

" I saw in the night visions" (wrote Daniel ; and behold, 
one like the Son of man, came with the clouds of Heaven, 
and came to the Ancient of days, and they brought Him near 
before Him. And there was given Him dominion (Psalm 72. 



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10; Zech. 9. 10; Numbers 24. 19) and glory (see Psalm 2. 7) 
and a kingdom (Psalm 2. 6, and Ps. 22. 28) that all people 
(Micah h 3) and nations (Isaiah 2. 4; Psalm 22. 27, 29. 82 — 
8; Isaiah 66. 18) should serve Him (Isaiah 60. 12; Psalm 2. 
8 — 12, 8. 5, 6, 22. 30). His dominion is an everlasting domi- 
nion (Psalm 145. 13) which shall not pass away; and His 
Kingdom that which shall not be destroyed. — See Daniel 2. 
44. 

This vision of the Glory of the Son of man, is in perfect 
accordance with the second and sixty-eighth Psalms; and 
both were written by David the king. The Glory was shown 
to Daniel, in the form of prophecy, that concerns the personal 
acceptance of Jesus with God, at His ascension; and the 
twenty-second verse foretells His coming to judgment in the 
time appointed by the Father, which is not opened upon 
earth, even to Christ Himself; nor by the Holy Ghost after 
the ascension, as to year, day, or hour; but plainly, " in the 
times of restitution." — Acts 3. 21; and Matt. 24. 29 — 31. 

This vision of Double Glory, first in the high Heaven of 
heavens, and second, upon earth, is intimately connected with 
two entire opposites, viz. the Day of Salvation, and the Day 
of Vengeance. The Kingdom of God was set up in the days 
of the Ceesars, at Jerusalem, then tributary to the feet and 
toes of the Gentile dominion, which is Rome. Herod, an 
Idumean (made king of Judea by the declaration of Rome), 
takes Jerusalem by violence, and thus he is styled the king; 
but Rome has a Procurator in the holy city, of her own sons; 
and by the latter Caiaphas was made high priest, and not by 
the God of Israel, or His people. Caiaphas was a Sadducee. 
He denied the immortality of the soul, the resurrection of the 
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body, and the existence of spirits. He rejected all the scrip- 
tare, except Moses' Five Books, Gen., Ex., Lev., Numb., 
Deut. ; and I expect, that Caiaphas believed Moses' writings, 
about as much as I believe in the Talmud. 

This man was, however, a child of the visible Kingdom of 
God, in respect of the covenant nation; and he must be cast 
out into outer darkness; there shall be weeping and gnashing 
of teeth. Great and holy was his privilege ! His lot upon 
earth was cast in the days that prophets and kings desired, 
even "the days of the Son of man." 

Idolatry (according to Samuel, the holy seer of old time), 
was the master sin in Jerusalem, when Christ, the holy child 
Jesus, was born King of the Jews. He was sent to a stub- 
born and rebellious generation, in whom was no faith. " Stub- 
bornness is as Iniquity and Idolatry." — 1 Samuel. 

The Blessed Redeemer laboured with and died for them. 
When the nails were driven through His Blessing bestowing, 
His mercy dispensing hands, and they were piercing His sa- 
cred feet, Calvary echoed with His heavenly voice, as He 
cried, " Father forgive them, they know not what they do." 
A serious Hebrew, whether male or female, will say, this 
Man exemplifies His own doctrine ; and confess that in this 
prayer of Jesus, He is a Pattern of the God of Israel in long- 
suffering, and of Moses in intercession for Israel. — Psalm 78. 
38, 39, and 86. 5; Ex. 32 ; and Deut. 14. 19. 

As on the day of Pentecost, the late Martyr Lamb is 
memorialized by a marvellous display of Divine Power, in 
the conversion of three thousand souls, who Praised God ; 
(v. 47), and this work being the fruit of one sermon (see v. 
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(with his brother), Jesus said "follow me ; and / will make 
you fishers of men," it seems to me necessary, for the balance 
of my onward testimony to the religion called after Jesus of 
Nazareth Christianity, to advise with the Law and the pro- 
phets, concerning this record of triumph over opposition that 
was not failing of support, from Nazareth to Calvary, and a 
Jewish guard at Joseph's new tomb. 

I shall first take notice of the condition of the new As- 
sembly, after they received the Blessing on Mount Olivet, 
and were parted from their lowly Shepherd, by His ascension 
to Heaven. We hear no cry "My father, my father, the 
chariot of Israel, and the horsemen thereof," to follow Him 
in the airy regions above their reach ; nor " God save the 
King or " Hosanna to King David's Son, Hosanna in the 
Highest ;" but see them stand mute with admiration, or even 
astonishment, at the sight of their late lowly Prophet, borne 
aloft on wings invisible, until a cloud received His person, and 
conveyed Him out of their sight. Still their ardent gaze was 
not diverted from the blue expansion over their orphan 
heads ; and we may well think that many a sigh, reaching 
to the soul's depth, rose from bereft bosoms, and mingled 
with the soft breeze of summer, which is more than beautiful 
to this day upon the Mount of Olives, that mountain so 
eminently hallowed, by the flight of David barefoot and 
weeping, the sorrow of Jesus for Jerusalem; and more than 
all, by His rapture therefrom, up to the Father in Heaven. 

Such a state as this, could not be reached by human sym- 
pathy ; and, for these eleven mourners in Zion, there was no 
Oracle, or Urim and Thummim, upon the earth ; but, within 
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not touch ; and it was generated by the Breath of Jesus, 
while He pronounced " Receive ye the Holy Ghost/ 5 as 
much as to say, the promise of the Father spoken by Joel 
(God commandeth), shall come upon you, as representatives 
of the tribes elect for my Glory upon earth ; for Abraham 
offered up his only son: Isaac meekly waited his father's 
blow : Jacob even handled God : Joseph was pure in heart 
and person in Egypt : Moses was presented to the Lord in 
his rush cradle : Joshua and Caleb conducted the Ark over 
Jordan : Samuel was asked of God, and lent to the Lord : 
and upon David's heart the " Mystery of godliness" was en- 
graven by oath of God. Abraham blest Isaac, Isaac blest 
Jacob, Jacob blest Joseph's sons, and the Lord appeared to 
Moses in Horeb. Samuel anointed David, and David had 
all the blessings of his progenitors, which he laid up in faith, 
to pour forth at the feet of the Promised Seed, whom he 
hailed as the Great King. 

I return to the eleven who were far more blessed than 
their fathers, in representing the glory that shall come on the 
tribes of Jacob at the last day. Eleven ? Where is Dan ? 
(Rachel's Judgment). 

The eleven are still gazing, and silent ; but Jesus is gone ! 
Suddenly they behold two men standing beside them in 
white apparel. (N. B. Only eleven men are on Mount 
Olivet — ). The white robed messengers say, 

"This same Jesus which is taken up from you into 
Heaven, shall so come in like manner, as ye have seen Him 
go into Heaven." 

The eleven then returned to the holy city, which is from 
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Sabbath as this, the apostles never saw before ; for the event 
had an echo reaching from the wilderness to Eden, « Rise up 
Lord and again, 

"Return, Lord, unto the many thousands in Israel!" 
And the eleven knew the joyful sound. They retired into 
an upper room, and were joined by the women who had fol- 
lowed Jesus, and Mary the mother of Jesus, and " His 
brethren." N. B. The same as Sarah was Abraham's sister. 
Gen. 20. 12. 

To these were added the seventy ; and they were unitedly 
and constantly engaged in prayer and supplication. 

Baalim cried (in hearing of the Serpent when he opened 
his mouth at the call of a type of the Serpent's Head), 

" From the top of the rocks I see Him — 

" And from the hills I behold Him : 
(This is the Promised Seed ascending up). 

" Lo ! the people shall dwell alone, 

" And shall not be reckoned among the nations." 

Jerusalem was then very full of people ; and at that time 
there seems to be a delegation from every part of the world. 
But the hundred and twenty were separate from all. 

They dwelt alone, and were unnoticed by the people, 
while the vision tarried ; and none beside these in the upper 
room (it was over David's tomb on Mount Zion), were ex- 
pecting it. 

But — when the Day of Pentecost was fully come, i. e. the 
celebration of your great Anniversary, my lords, the Jews, 
(who hold the Sign of the covenant), suddenly the attention 
of your people, who were setting out to go to the temple (now 
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vapours of smoke, central, and fixed just over (or close 
by) the tomb of David your king, and the king of all 
your tribes. 

I have been a sojourner in Jerusalem; and in May (1837, 
1840, 1841), I never saw a cloud, or symptom of smoky 
vapour there. May, in Jerusalem (commencing as you 
reckon), is the loveliest month in all the year. 

Not Jews only are spectators of that wonderful exhibition 
of God (who said by the mouth of the prophet Joel (God 
commanding), 

" I will show wonders in the heavens ; 

" And in the earth, blood, and fire, 

" And vapours of smoke,") but men of every tongue and 
people assembled on the spot ; for it was noised abroad that 
the giving of the Law was celebrated by the unlearned and 
ignorant men that followed Jesus, and women too, and that 
every one spoke of the wonderful works of God. 

Who could have been the reporter? Of course it must 
have been that some Jews were living in that day, who re- 
vered the spot, where rested David the king ; and that they 
beheld the signs, is evident from Peter's address, " This is 
that which was spoken by the prophet Joel," &c. Can we 
doubt but messengers were providentially elect, for the pur- 
pose of calling a great assembly, to hear the Law expounded 
in every tongue, and the Gospel of Glory published in the 
language of the Law only; for certainly Peter addressed 
Hebrews only, other nations of this favoured world not being 
candidates on that day, for the Kingdom of God. The pro- 
phets, as much as the Law, were the sole property of the 
Jews ; and the covenants of circumcision, kingship, and land 
were theirs, with the adoption and the Glory. 



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Peter — astonishing fact ! — Peter commanded the Jews to 
hear his words. They listened; and the Irresistible Power of 
the Spirit of Truth fulfilled on three thousand souls those 
words of Christ, He shall "reprove of sin, of righteousness, 
and of a judgment to come." 

The scene is a strong type of the conversion of your nation, 
at the return of « Excellent" One, even Christ's return to the 
children of Israel. Please examine the third verse of the fifth 
chapter of Micah. 

Love is in mortals, a strong passion. Divine Love is God, 
and He is a consuming fire. All the nobility of human pas- 
sions are devoured by it; and wherever the flame is kindled, 
there is jealousy cruel as the grave ! 

The Law of the Spirit of Life in Christ Jesus, which frees 
the soul from sin, could not be called the finishing, or fulfilling 
of the Ten Words, but for this cruel jealousy of Love. " God 
so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son;" 
and is not God jealous on His own behalf, that He received 
a body of flesh and bones into Light inaccessible and full of 
Glory; and because that Jew requires it, God must descend 
as He did to Israel, and report that the Jew is made both 
Adonai and Christ ! What fearful things are written against 
the violators of God, which is Love ! 

li The Law is broken. 

2. The Gospel is rejected. 

3. The Holy Ghost is blasphemed. 

He is likened, at the birth of the inward kingdom, which 
prepares for the coming of the outward, to cloven tongues, as 
of fire ; and the representation is but One. This is the Mys- 
tery of mysteries; and its most awful concern involves the 



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Atonement as a past event, having no onward Power ; but 
stopping forever on Calvary, where the cry was uttered, " It 
is finished ! ! !" 

My lords, the Jews, you know that Moses, your ancient 
Lawgiver, was weary of bearing with your fathers; and 
Moses applied to God for a release, even death, rather than 
to be chief ruler over such a stubborn people. 

" It is written" that the Lord instantly ordered Moses to 
gather seventy elders, with officers over them, and to bring 
them into the tabernacle of the congregation, to stand there 
with Moses. 

And the Lord said, "/will come down and talk with thee 
there," &c. 

The result I copy. {English). 

"And the Lord came down in a cloud ; 

"And took of the Spirit that was upon Moses, and gave it 
unto the seventy elders ; and it came to pass that when the 
Spirit rested upon them, they prophesied, and did not cease." 

In this scene, I must testify, there was hid in embryo the 
Pentecost of God at Jerusalem, and upon Mount Zion, cele- 
brated in Gospel account, as the last of the Presence, upon 
earth, until the Lion of Judah shall manifest " the wrath of 
the Lamb." 

The Kingdom of God was established by the vision of the 
mystical cloven tongues, like fire. 

In a few days (less than a week) five thousand Jews con- 
fessed at Jerusalem that Jesus of Nazareth was their Hope, 
and His Cross their Glory. 

On the very next day after this, the rulers fulfilled their 
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effectually from Jerusalem's House ; for Beauty is torn asun- 
der ; and there is no more spirit, life, or light upon earth, ex- 
cept the Staff Bands, can conquer the foolish Shepherd. This 
cannot be. This is impossible. The Seed of the woman 
must bruise the Serpent's Head; and this Conqueror must 
come down from Heaven; but the Serpent's Head ascendeth 
out of the bottomless pit. 

From the Great Pentecost, I fly past the seasons of Grace, 
Mercy, and Peace, to all that receive the Gospel; and hasten 
to the grand Junction of my testimony, even to the Day of 
Christ. 

I will show, as well as I can, the meaning of those words, 
the Day of Christ. I know nothing of myself; and receive 
nothing without evidence. In all cases of importance, two 
or three living witnesses are necessary for settling the matter. 
It is vain to say, such a man knew all this, if that man is 
dead, even if writings were found in his house, that appear 
like the matter, for the man is dead. He cannot speak for 
their validity, or declare them false. 
So it is with my subject. 

u The living, the living, 
" He shall praise Thee. 
" The father to the children 
« Shall make known Thy Truth." 
With solemn reverence, and fear that hateth a lie, I an- 
nounce to you, my lords the Jews, that I have seen in Jeru- 
salem the living, sentimental, and practical expositors of holy 
writ ; and the mountain beside, with her pools and valleys, 
in silent eloquence were witnesses for Israel's God. 

Give me a Book of Laws and commandments, of instruc- 
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tions and guidance in good ways, of warnings and counsels 
and comforts, I receive it as it is, according to my experience 
and judgment and trial; but, if the Book represents the laws 
and commandments primarily addressed to an individual, or 
a family, or a nation, by name, and the name is living before 
me, the Book is its own witness, in me, by consciousness of 
duty to the Author, who shows his copyright, and declara- 
tion of living witnesses for Him and His works. 

Wherever I see a Jew, in Jerusalem or elsewhere, he is to 
me a witness of the Day of Christ ; for prophecy to my view 
has a bell and a pomegranate, a bell and a pomegranate, all 
about its borders, the one for sound, the other for fruit, pro- 
claiming Christ for His people, and God for Christ and His 
people forever. 

" The Day of Christ." It is not an original term with you 
or me, by itself; nor acceptable without exercise of true faith 
in the promised Seed. For your sakes, whom I address as 
the standing witnesses for the God of Heaven, and Maker, 
Preserver, and Ruler over all things, I will say, " The great 
and dreadful day of the Lord;" and if the former term 
proves not a balance, as Holy Scripture decides, I must give 
my testimony to the moles and the bats, exclaiming, " Our 
Hope is lost !" 

" The Great and Dreadful Day of the Lord !" In one verse 
only I find this recorded in your holy Books of testimony. It 
follows close and heavy the " last lingering" note upon the 
strings of the Divine harp of sacred prophecy, which vibrates 
to the sound of a blessing and a curse upon Ebal and Geri- 
zim ; for Elijah was a prophet in Israel. The verse preced- 
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that my testimony for the Dispersed, is urging to the crisis, 
which involves especially one of the most humbling ordi- 
nances in the construction of a sanctuary for God. I mean, 
the Day of Atonement. 

But — who are the people addressed in the last chapter of 
" The burden of the Word of the Lord to Israel by Mala- 
chi?" Not "the sons of Jacob," as a family; c. 3. v. 7 — 9. 
Not Judah as a nation; c. 2. 11. Not the priests of the law; 
c. 2. 1—3. Who then ? 

" Unto You that fear my NAME." I proceed with " The 
Great and Dreadful Day of the Lord !" 
" Blow ye the trumpet in Zion, 
" Sound an alarm in my holy mountain. 
" Let all the inhabitants of the land tremble, 
" For the Day of the Lord cometh ; 
" For it is nigh at hand." ^ 
Joel (God commanding) does not say " Great and Dread- 
ful," like Malachi (Messenger), but Joel portrays it thus : 
"A Day of darkness and gloominess, 
"A Day of clouds and of thick darkness, 
"As the morning spread upon the mountains." 
Very suddenly (I will not say abruptly), the prophecy 
ushers upon our gaze, an army, "a great people and a 
strong :" 

"There hath not been ever the like, 

" Neither shall be any more after it, 

" Even to the years of many generations. — 

" A fire devoureth before them, 

" And behind them a flame burneth ; 

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« And behind them a desolate wilderness ; 
" And nothing shall escape them." 
From the third to the tenth verse, please consult your holy 
speech, the Hebrew text. 
V. 10: 

" The earth shall quake before them, 
" The heavens shall tremble : 
" The sun and the moon shall be dark, 
" And the stars shall withdraw their shining." 
V. 11: 

" And the Lord shall utter His voice 

" Before His army : 

" For His camp is very great. 

" He is strong that executeth His word, 

" For the day of the Lord is great 

" And very terrible ! 

" Who can abide it ?" 
This prophecy cannot have been accomplished, because its 
immediate result is deliverance to Zion, by the Lord Him- 
self; for He says, * I will cleanse their blood that I have not 
cleansed; for the Lord dwelleth in Zion." The Roman 
army is doubtless seen by the prophet : " a great people and 
strong :" but the Roman siege does not represent the Day of 
the Lord, any more than the destruction of Jerusalem by 
Babylon, as Rome is but the iron part, and Babylon the 
golden, of monarchies appointed by the Lord, in the ages of 
dominion by Pride, to interrupt the throne of David, for 
breach of the kingly covenant, until judgment returns unto 
righteousness; for God will not surfer His Holy Name to be 
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I shall now turn to the fourteenth chapter of Zechariah : 
" Behold the Day of the Lord cometh, and thy spoil shall be 
divided in the midst of thee." The word of the Lord came 
to this prophet in the second year of Darius, King of the 
Medes. The seventy years' captivity of Zion's children were 
finished. This prophecy is enrolled for a future destruction 
of Jerusalem, even while preparations were in hand for res- 
toration after Babylon. N. B. " Thy spoil shall be divided," 
&c, for " I will gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle." 
"And the city shall be taken, 
"And the houses rifled, 
"And the women ravished, 
"And half of the city shall go forth into captivity, 
"And the residue of the people shall not be cut off 
from the city." 
I shall compare this prophecy with the word of the Lord 
to Zephaniah, in the reign of Josiah, King of Judah. 
" The Great Day of the Lord is near ; 
" It is near and hasteth greatly ; 
" Even the voice of the Day of the Lord. 
" The mighty Man shall cry there bitterly." 
Please take great notice of these words : 
" Voice of the Day," &c, and " The mighty Man," and 
" Shall cry there bitterly." 

Jeremiah says the Lord shall roar mightily, and plead 
with all flesh. 25. 30. 

Isaiah. " The Lord shall go forth as a mighty man, He 
shall stir up jealousy like a man of war ; He shall cry, yea 
roar ; He shall prevail against His enemies." 
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Amos. " The Lord will roar from Zion ; 

"And utter His voice from Jerusalem." 

I return to Zephaniah. 

" That Day is a day of wrath, 
"A Day of trouble and distress, 
" A Day of wasteness and desolation, 
" A Day of darkness and gloominess, 
" A Day of clouds and thick darkness, 
" A Day of the trumpet, 
" And alarm against the fenced cities, 
" And against the high towers." 
See verses 17, 18. — Note "Day of the Lord's wrath." 

N. B. Silver and gold useless. 

Chap. 3. v. 8. "Therefore wait ye upon me, saith the 
Lord, until the day that I rise up to the prey ; for my deter- 
mination is, to gather the nations, that I may assemble the 
kingdoms, to pour upon them mine indignation (i. e. wrath 
and contempt), even all my fierce anger, for all the earth shall 
be devoured by the fire of my jealousy." 

N. B. The remainder of the prophecy is a counterpart of 
the result in Joel, viz. deliverance to Zion by the presence of 
the Lord. 

I return to Zech. 14. 3. " Then shall the Lord go forth, 
and fight against those nations (i. e. all nations, v. 2), as when 
He fought in the field of battle." 

I do not assert that the literal Presence is intended, by the 
expressions, " Then shall the Lord go forth," &c. ; for the 
second and third clauses of this remarkable verse (never as 
yet fulfilled, but must be, and before long, I do believe), 
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recorded in Acts 23. 6 and Hos.; and with strength of argument 
too ; for it is written, that the Lord slew the heathen from Gib- 
eon to Makkedah, chasing them in their flight ; and cast down 
great stones from Heaven upon them that they died; yet 
Joshua the son of Nun, a descendant of Rachel (the weary 
sheep), was visible commander-in-chief of the Lord's hosts ; 
and was followed by "all the people of war, and all the 
mighty men of valour" from Gibeon to Azekah, and unto 
Makkedah, where the five kings, in a great fright, hid them- 
selves in a cave, from an army visibly commanded by one 
man. Still this fact is before us, 

" The Lord fought for Israel." 

I would now propose, for the honour of a literal testimony, 
immediate attention to the fifth chapter of Joshua, thirteenth, 
fourteenth and fifteenth verses, keeping in my sight, the dis- 
may of these very kings (N. B. The first named was king of 
Jerusalem), at Israel's miraculous entrance upon the land ; 
and remembering that all this people, except two men 
(Joshua and Caleb), were children of the forest, as our In- 
dians at this day. 

Verse 13. "it came to pass when Joshua was by 

Jericho, that he lifted up his eyes, and looked, and behold, 
THERE STOOD A MAN over against him (I believe ex- 
actly over Joshua's head in the air), with His Sword drawn 
in His Hand. And Joshua went unto Him and said, Art 
thou for us, or for our adversaries? Verse 14. And He 
said nay; but as Prince of the host of the Lord am I now 
come." 

Joshua was unequal to this man. If just before, he had 
been tempted to suppose that he was that character, the illu- 



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sion vanished, and he fell on his face to the earth, and wor- 
shipped THE MAN, saying, 

" What saith my Lord, unto His servant ?" " Loose thy 
shoe from off thy foot ; 

"For — the place — where thou standest — is Holiness!" 
This (and no more) was answered to Joshua, an eminent 
type of the final Bruiser, who cannot be otherwise than the 
woman's Seed ; and must first put on the shoe, then He must 
put it off, and again put it on ; and no other Man can do this, 
but Joshua's Lord, Prince of princes, and Lord of lords. 

Zech. 14. 4. 

" And His feet shall stand in that Bay 
" Upon the Mount of Olives ; 

" And the Mount of Olives shall cleave in the midst thereof 
toward the east, 

" And toward the west ; 

" And there shall be a very great valley ; 

" And half of the mountain shall remove toward the north, 

" And half of it toward the south." 

I do claim literality for the Presence upon this text ; for 
there is no other interpretation thereof. 

" His feet !" Whose ? Answer, The Lord's ! Whose ? 

Answer, The Son of man, made a little lower than the 

angels ; for He puts on the nature of the Seed of Abraham ; 
yet crowned with glory and honour, for He is without sin. 
It is written in the eighth Psalm that He is made (i. e. the 
purpose of His manifestation upon earth), to have dominion 
over all Creation; and all things shall be subject to the Man- 
ifestation. Feet may be ascribed to the God of Israel in no 
other proper way, than by the Manifestation ; and Joshua, 



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Daniel, David and Isaiah, beheld their Lord in form and 
similitude of the sons of men, whom they worshipped as The 
King, the Lord of hosts, i. e. the armies of Israel, and the 
armies of angels. 

Zech. 14. 9. In the midst of terrors, and a terrible earth- 
quake, there is evidently a Coronation of the Prince of princes ; 
and the Promised Land has the Lord for an Everlasting 
King, One Lord, and His Name One. His throne is Jerusa- 
lem, styled the place of His feet ; and « HOLINESS UNTO 
THE LORD OF HOSTS," is the order of His reign. 

I shall now look for the great and dreadful day of the 
Lord, in the Book of the visions of Isaiah. 

" Howl ye ! for the Day of the Lord is at hand : 

" It shall come as a destruction 

" From the Almighty ! 

" Behold the Day of the Lord cometh, 

" Cruel both with wrath and fierce anger, 

"To lay the land desolate ; 

" And He shall destroy the sinners out of it." 
The last line carries the cause and effect together, exhibit- 
ing the necessity of judgment against Babylon, the mother of 
witchcrafts. 

Verse 12. " I will make a man more precious than fine 
gold; 

" Even a man than the golden wedge of Ophir." 
Compare v. 12 with Psalm 137. 8, 9; and then read verse 31 
of the 50th chapter of Jeremiah ; and follow up and down, 
back and forth, the royal prophet, as he travelled in testimony 
concerning Judah and Jerusalem, in the days of four kings, 
viz. : 

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Uzziah (Strength of the Lord), 

Jotham (Perfection of the Lord), 

Ahaz (One that possesses), 

Hezekiah (Strength of God), 
with the staff of Jacob (faith in EL ELHOE Israel), in hand, 
pure of bribes, covetousness, pride and traditions of men, 
and I believe you will consent that Babylon's fall is the rise 
of Zion ; and as Babylon is to rise no more forever, so Zion 
shall never fall. On the issue of this question, is dependant 
the release of Adam's race from bondage to corruption ; for 
the corner-stone of Redemption is laid in Zion, and unto her 
the Head-stone must be brought with a shout of Grace, 
Grace, even reconciliation, restoration, Salvation, Eternal 
Life. 

Babylon's fall is set forth in prophecy as the Sign of Israel 
and Judah's return to Zion as one nation ; (see Jer. 50. 4), 
and great shall be that day, no other day is like it. Israel 
is represented as a scattered sheep with broken bones ; and 
the king of Babylon is the last enemy both of Judah and Is- 
rael, of course this king is commander of an army composed 
of all nations; for Babylon (in opposition to Zion), is called 
the glory of kingdoms, by usurpation of the Serpent's Head ; 
for Oh ! that Head is even exhibited for adoration in the 
temple of God at Jerusalem ; and this very thing ushers upon 
a slumbering world, the great and dreadful Day of the Lord. 

In Zechariah the king of Babylon is called a foolish 
shepherd, that shall eat the fat and tear their claws in pieces, 
synonymous with breaking bones. 

" Better is a poor and wise child, 

" Than an old and foolish king who will not be admon- 
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" Out of prison he cometh to reign — " 

Raised up — out of the bottomless pit — ! 

Daniel reports this character, a vile person, to whom per- 
taineth not the honour of the kingdom. That is, he is not 
the Son of David, he is not the Lion of Judah, he is not the 
Righteous Branch, he is not the child born to Zion, he is not 
God's Elect, God's Anointed, God's King. 

This character, who obtaineth the kingdom, by lies (or 
flatteries), is portrayed by Habakkuk, "a transgressor by 
wine, a proud man, who enlargeth his desire as Hell, and is 
as death, and cannot be satisfied, but gathereth unto him ail 
nations, and heapeth unto him all people." 

Daniel was told by the "certain Man," that this king shall 
do according to his will ; and his will is to " exalt himself 
above every god (every ruler), and he shall speak marvellous 
things against the God of gods, and shall prosper till the in- 
dignation (chap. 8. 13, 14), be accomplished; for that that is 
determined shall be done. Neither shall he regard the God 
of his fathers, nor the desire of women, nor regard any God; 
for he shall magnify himself above all." 

Awful Judgment ! Oh ! Rachel ! I trace this woe through 
back ages of sin and sorrow, to thy unhallowed resistance of 
the right of an appointed mother ! Laban, the Syrian, a 
worshipper of false gods, was but an instrument in the hand 
of Israel's " Father of Eternity," to prevent the entire annul- 
ment of that precious branch of the covenant blessing, by 
which Abram was named Abraham, even the father of many 
nations ; and the seal was a law upon the flesh, constituting 
it holy, until the fullness of time, when the woman's Seed 
must appear. Until that time, order must be preserved in 



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God's house upon earth; and Jacob departed from God's 
rules, when he asked for the younger sister. Eve was the 
eldest daughter both of God and man; and Eve was the first 
wife in the world. To Eve it appertained in the result, that 
her Seed should destroy her seducer, and all his works. No 
marvel then, that this Promise should be forever " The De- 
sire of women." I only marvel that woman should ever 
forget her original election, however humiliating was its 
manner, for the Lord God spoke to her enemy, and not to 
her, and as to Adam, he then, had not a morsel of personal 
interest, except his bread by sweat and toil ; and this but for 
a time, then annihilation was the summary judgment on 
his sin ! Dust to dust. — I do not forget the Promise. Eve 
supposed she was the elect mother, in her own name — Eve. 
She was mistaken. It is in her original name, given to her 
by The Noble (Man in innocence), in Eden, the decree is 
sealed. 

Sarah was mistaken another way. She seemed to claim 
the building up of her house, although the Lord had nothing 
to do with Egypt, it was not the original birth-place of man; 
and Hagar's descent forbid this hope. Afterward, Sarah 
repented and drove the alien from her presence; but the 
Lord sent Hagar back; for Ishmael, (as Abraham's son), 
must be born in Sarah's tent. 

Rebekah was mistaken. " If so (if Isaac is entitled to the 
calling), why am I thus ?" And she inquired of the Lord ; 
and was informed that she as Rebekah, should be the mother 
of two nations. 

Leah (the lawful holder of the covenant, as Jacob's first 
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birthright was connected with the Woman in Eden. Leah 
stopped ontside the closed gate, and accepted Eve in her 
goatskin robe, the partner of Adam in exile from God. Leah 
understood not the covenant, "the elder shall serve the 
younger ;" and she was punished for assuming her right as 
Jacob's wife, while she knew she was not his choice, instead 
of glorying only in God. When Judah was born Leah 
spoke as a Christian, " Now will 1 praise the Lord and 
Judah was accepted. This is truth ! 

Rachel was mistaken altogether; and appears like a judg- 
ment upon Jacob for breach of the covenant ; for Adam had 
but one wife. Jacob and Leah were one by circumstance ; 
and, as Laban was her father, which was hated, I see God 
above Laban, making this union, that Jacob might not lose 
the Blessing, even the Godly Seed. 

" Give me children, or else I die," said the weary sheep. 
She did not ask God, as Hannah did ; but reproached God, 
by fretting at her husband. Rachel appointed means, and 
she obtained the end ; and awakes by Divine mercy, out of 
her sinful dreams exclaiming, " God hath judged me and 
. she called his name Dan ! 

In the first days (2000 years of the Law) Dan was in hon- 
our as one of the tribes of Israel. A great election ! In the 
last days (containing " the fullness of time"), 
« Hear, O Israel :" 

" Dan shall be a Serpent by the way, 
" An adder in the path, 
" That biteth the horse heels, 
« So that his rider shall fall backward!" 
Your ancient father, Israel, then delivered his soul unto 
the true God. "/ have waited for thy Salvation, Lord." 



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Did Moses bless the name of Dan ? Nay, verily. 
" Dan is a lion's whelp. 

" He shall leap from Bashan." (Mount of Confusion, 
or Slander). 

How plain is the matter made for us, who live in the last 
days, that the Serpent's Head is set on Dan; and Israel's 
prophecy must be fulfilled. 

ggp* I am writing my testimony. 

I believe there has been fulfilled (in part) sufficient to jus- 
tify my present appeal to the Jews. Not that I think any 
thing of myself, or that I suppose my labour will prove an 
efficient warning; but only this, that the subject has been 
opened to me by the Lord, and to Him I am accountable 
that I confess His Name. " I am a poor worm." 

" The Lord, He is God." « Hallelujah !" 

I have said, that the coming of Anti-Christ, will usher 
upon a slumbering world, " the great and dreadful Day of 
the Lord." I will now say, his coming to Jerusalem, in cha- 
racter of the Great King. 

I look upon Herod (that fox) as a notable type of the lite- 
ral Anti-Christ. " Upon a set day Herod, arrayed in royal 
apparel, sat upon his throne, and made an oration unto them. 

" And the people gave a shout, and said, it is the voice of 
a god, and not of a man." 

This was at Cesarea, about eighty miles from the Holy City. 

The vile person will be applauded by all Jews who forsake 
the holy covenant ; and they will worship him as God, and 
not man. By them, and not by his own power, will he oc- 
cupy the throne of David, for a time and times and half a 
time, aided by ten kingdoms, toward the close. Two things 



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1 must notice. He does not come meek and lowly, although 
he pretends to honour the Jews. He does not come in Power 
like God, although he says, "I am God." The manner of 
his coming, however, is favourable to his purpose, which is, to 
establish Satan upon earth forever; and this object, is the 
price of his soul and body. None but God, the Rock of Is- 
rael, can defeat him, even the Messiah, which is the Anointed, 
who cometh down out of Heaven, as David the king por- 
trays in the eighteenth Psalm ; and great, and very terrible, 
is His Advent to Bruise the Serpent's Head, that Eden (in 
Zion) may be delivered, and Creation rest. 

As the vile person's career is eminent for wickedness, so is 
the Seed of the woman, a reverse by meekness and truth and 
righteousness, a terror to evil doers, and the praise of them 
that do well. 

The Great and Dreadful Day of the Lord, is certainly very 
terrible to all who have broken His Laws, impeached His 
honour, and blasphemed His Name ; and no pardon, no re- 
lease, no favour, can he show to any soul, that is not afflicted 
by ar sense of iniquity, for which the soul laments as commit- 
ted against the Redeemer of Israel, for by this title God is 
announced to the whole world. "All flesh shall know that I, 
the Lord, am thy Saviour and Thy Redeemer, the Mighty 
One of Jacob, is addressed to Zion, when she laments 
" The Lord hath forsaken me, 
" The Lord hath forgotten me." 
And the Lord also declares, 

"Behold, /have graven thee upon the palms of my 
hands." 

Redeemer ! what is the literal meaning ? 



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In the Law, it is traced to release ; and who ordained the 
Law? Is not, "thus saith the Lord," appended to every 
particle of the Law ? Is not the God of Israel His own wit- 
ness in the Law ? Where can we get evidence of the terms 
of release, i. e. Redemption, if we turn away from the Law ? 

Redeemer, then, implies the purchaser ; and the Lord says 
to you, " Behold, for your iniquities have ye sold yourselves." 
— Isaiah 50. 1. The children of Israel being the sole pro- 
perty of God, in the whole earth, by His own election, and 
their acceptance of Him, and the terms He offered, if they 
sell themselves, who will, who can redeem them to their 
owner, but the owner Himself? If another redeem, that is, 
pays the debt, that person will heir the ransomed treasure. 

Question : Who is judge of the price and the pay ? I an- 
swer, the owner ! and that is God. 

Moses and Joshua are witnesses for both parties, the owner 
and the inheritance, even God and the children of Israel. 
According to their testimony, the children of Israel consented 
to all the Lord's requirements, and confessed they were rea- 
sonable, just, equitable, and glorious; yet, through all* the 
forty years that Moses led them in the wilderness, he found 
them a stiff-necked people, prone to murmur and fret against 
the Lord, and Moses His servant. 

Joshua (in his farewell sermon, when he gathered all the 
tribes of Israel to Shechem, just before his death), solemnly 
said to the people, 

" Ye will not be able to serve the Lord, 

« For He is The Holy Ones : 

" He is a Jealous God, 

" He will not forgive your sins."* 

* See Isaiah 65. 11—15 ; and Zech. 13. 8. 



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Moses told the Levites (when he ordered them to put the 
Law into the side of the Ark of the Covenant of the Lord), 
that he knew evil would befall them in the latter days, be- 
cause they would do evil in the sight of the Lord, to provoke 
Him to anger with the work of their hands. 

Atonement, Redemption, and Safety, were all fore- 
shadowed to Israel in the Law ; but they did not under- 
stand with the heart, as they only believed in the head, by 
which I mean, that they confided in the letter, to the neglect 
of the Word; and rested in the shade of good signified, not 
seeking for the substance by faith in the promised Seed. No- 
thing will answer unto God's requirements, but faith in His 
Word. " If ye will not believe, surely ye shall not be estab- 
lished," said the Lord unto Ahaz, by the prophet Isaiah, at 
the time of great peril to David's house ; and just after the 
prophet's first message, the Lord spoke to Ahaz concerning 
a Sign of the establishment thereof; and Ahaz might have 
proposed heaven above, or earth beneath ; but he would not 
ask any thing, as though God could be asked beyond His 
power. 

" Hear now, house of David (cried the Holy Ghost by 
Isaiah) is it a small thing for you to weary men, but will ye 
weary my God also ? Therefore the Lord Himself shall 
give you a Sign : Behold a Virgin shall conceive, and bear 
a Son ; and shall call His Name Im-Man-U-EL." 

This Sign is both from heaven, and in the earth, given for 
thousands of generations, to be the Praise of all peoples, 
when "speed to the Spoil," in seven thunders, summons an 
army of angels to follow Zion's Deliverer to the Lord's 
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Land ; and in the day of His triumph over Leviathan, and 
the Dragon of the sea, David's house shall sing, 
" Unto us a child is born, 
" Unto us a Son is given : 
"And the government shall be upon His shoulder, 
"And His Name shall be called 

" Wonderful (the Secret of God), 

" Counsellor (the Man of God's right hand), 

" The Mighty God, 

"The Father of Eternity (Beginning and 
Ending), 
" The Prince of Peace. 
" Of the increase of His government 
"There shall be no end, (Daniel 2. 441), 
" Upon the throne of David, 
" And upon his kingdom, 
" To order it and to establish it, 
" With judgment and with justice, 
" From henceforth, even for ever. 
" The zeal of the Lord of hosts 
" Will perform this." — Isaiah 9. 
The sure word in that Day is recorded in the chapter pre- 
ceding, " God is with us." 

The confederacy (mentioned in the seventh chapter) is ripe 
in the Day of the Lord, and is accomplished by the vile per- 
son spoken of to Daniel and the King of Babylon, to Jere- 
miah, under figure of the Assyrian, that must be broken and 
trodden under foot, in the land and upon the mountains of 
the Lord of hosts; (see Isaiah, chap. 14. 24 — 27) ; and, it is 
written, 



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"And the stretching out of his wings (i. e. his power 
or defence) 

" Shall fill the breadth of thy Land, 

" Immanuel !" 
But, instantly there is a challenge given, which expressly 
answers to Joel 3. 9 — 14; and defies all the strength of Zion's 
enemies ; but, even then, in the height of this fierce anger, 
there is maintained resistance of the challenge ; for we read 
in the fourteenth and fifteenth verses of Isaiah 8 c, that the 
Lord of hosts, who is ordained by His own counsel, for a 
Sanctuary, shall be a stone of stumbling and rock of offence, 
to both the houses of Israel. 

The stone of stumbling, I believe is the humiliation de- 
clared in Isaiah 52 and 53 — the rock of offence, is Immanuel. 
But, in the Great and Dreadful Day of the Lord, the rock of 
offence becomes the only resource, for help to the " wounded 
sheep," the remnant of Israel, that is preserved for the build- 
ing up of David's house ; and they shall say, 

" Lord, I will praise thee ; 

" Thou wast angry with me, 

" Thine anger is turned away, 

" And thou comfortedst me." 
In that Day, 

"A King shall reign in righteousness, 

"And that Man shall be as a hiding place from the 
wind, 

"And a covert from the tempest, 
"As a river of water in a dry place, 
"As the shadow of a great rock 
"In a weary land." 



228 ADDRESS TO THE 

The Man that is a hiding place, is the King of Israel, and 
the King of Israel is the Lord, unto whom David said in his 
trouble for his sins, 

" Thou art my Hiding Place and the Psalm preceding 
represents David calling upon the Lord to be his Strong 
Rock, for a house of defence, to save him. N. B. Strong 
Rock — house of defence. As the human body is, in scrip- 
ture, styled " the house," Eccl. 12. 3, and Messiah is expected 
to come of David's house, and as David prayed to the Lord, 
to be his Strong Rock, for a house of defence, to save him, I 
infer, that David supplicated for his interest in God, the son 
promised to sit upon his throne, who should be the Strong 
Rock for a house of defence, the house being a shelter for his 
soul, which David calls a Strong Rock; and in full faith ex- 
claims, 

" Behold God is my Salvation ; and 
" The Lord is my Rock, 
" God is my Defence. 

" The Lord is my Light and my Salvation. 

" The Lord is King for ever and ever f and David 
being a prophet, knew that " the God of Israel, the Rock of 
Israel," had made with him a covenant for this kingship, as 
sure and permanent as the Land covenant with his fathers ; 
and David calls it an everlasting covenant, so it must have 
been one thing with the promised Seed of the woman, that 
shall bruise the Serpent's Head, David for a type, who smote 
Goliath (revolution) of Gath (a wine press) with a stone from 
the shepherd's bag ; and (a scrip this bag is called, which was 
holy), the stone sunk into the forehead of Goliath, so that he 
fell upon his face to the earth. 



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The prophet Asaph prayed for this King to appear, and 
suffer for the church, saying, "Give ear, Shepherd of 
Israel, 

" Stir up Thy Strength, and come and save us. 

" Let Thy hand be upon the man of thy right hand, 

" Upon the Son of man whom Thou 

" Madest strong for Thyself. 

" So will we not go back from Thee. 

" Quicken us and we will call upon Thy Name. 

" Turn us again, Lord, God of hosts, 

" Cause Thy face to shine, 

" And we shall be saved." 

9fc 

The Messiah is Adam's representative, as Adam was 
made even in the image of God ; and Israel (quickened by 
the Breath from the four winds, holiness, justice, goodness, 
and truth), is Eve in the beauty of immortality. The latter 
waits for the manifestation of this image ; for the whole con- 
gregation of the LojId must behold Him at once, and with 
one mouth, and one voice, proclaim, 

" Lo ! this is our God, we have waited for Him ; 

"We will be glad, and rejoice in His Salvation." 
The Messiah is addressed as the God of Israel, by David 
the king. 

" Thou hast confirmed to Thyself 

" Thy people Israel, to be unto Thee a people forever ; 

" And Thou Lord, art become their God." 
I therefore believe, that Christ is the Lord, whose Day 
shall burn as an oven ; and that His fire is in Zion, and His 
furnace in Jerusalem, in that time of trouble, which is to be 
brought upon your nation by the dominion of the Vile. 



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I have strong proof to my testimony in the Holy Scrip- 
tures ; and I confess Christ to you, my honourable friends, on 
this wise, stopping with the fathers and the prophets, as a 
little child at school, to learn the method of God, in bringing 
about such a glorious event, as results in Satan's destruction, 
who hath the power of death, who is the father of lies ; and 
a murderer from the beginning. I have endeavoured to 
search for the foundation of evil (Death and Hell), that I 
might know how to estimate their opposites, life and liberty; 
and I have said like Daniel, that I would know the truth 
concerning the end of the Beastly, or Animal Dominion, 
whose end brings in everlasting Righteousness ; and I confess 
that after all my goings in and out, I am involved in the 
words of your law : 

" Secret things belong to God, even the Lord, our God ; 
and things which are revealed, belong unto His covenant 
people, and their children forever." 

I ask myself, now, what is revealed to me ; and what is 
my portion therein ; or, do I labour for others, and show 
them a kingdom in which I have no share? Question: 
What is revealed to me? I answer, "The Seed of the 
woman shall bruise the Serpent's Head." How is He re- 
vealed ? In a mystery ; and the mystery is written in my 
conscience, that the Promised Seed is the Secret of the Lord 
God ; and God being pleased to make me to fear Him, hath 
put His Secret into my soul, and in the Secret, He shows me 
His Covenant. 

Thirty-six years, seven months, and five days, have sped 
their flight since I first cried in humble earnest, for Salvation, 
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declare that I am indebted to no man,* either by public or 
private instruction, but only to the Lord. " I cried unto the 
Lord, He heard me ;" and I was happy. I have since had 
a warfare, such as David the King expresses in Psalm 55 ; 
and have longed for rest. Much sickness and adversity, have 
been the means of drawing my attention more and more to 
sacred things ; and I can say 

"It is good for me that I have been afflicted, that I might 
learn Thy Statutes." 

It has been my high privilege, for the last sixteen years, to 
consider myself a candidate for suffering in the evil day, the 
short time of Satan's great wrath, that elicits the reign of 
Anti-Christ, in which every sacred and holy subject, whether 
of Law or Gospel, will lie prostrate before the god of this 
age, even the Serpent's Head. 

As, for thirty-six years, I have been quickened by the 
Spirit, to feel my need of a constant and incessant cry for 
Divine Mercy, so for the last sixteen years of my frail life, I 
have been faithfully warned by the same inward, irresistible 
Power, that double grace was necessary to preserve me from 
the roaring lion, " that crooked Serpent," who goeth about to 
devour every soul that aims to glorify the Seed of the woman, 
decreed to bruise his Head. Help Lord, is my cry ! ! ! 

In 1831 (vulgar reckoning), 1 was brought to a decided 
stand respecting the Sabbath Day. I knew very well that 
the seventh day was sanctified by the Maker of all (both rich 
and poor), as commemorative of His great work in creation ; 
and I got into trouble about the confusion, and overplus of 
labour and worldliness on that Original, set Day of refreshing 

* Woman I own as an instrument of good to my soul. 



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to the Lord. In the same year (1831), I was solemnly per- 
suaded in my mind and judgment, that the reign of the Glo- 
rious Antitype of that day (the Sabbath), must shortly be estab- 
lished upon earth. In connection with this belief, I viewed 
the Restoration of God's own people to the land of their 
fathers, by a very different way than is represented by 
learned writers upon the Millennium. I saw their David, 
the Righteous Raised up Branch, the King and Priest, 
coming down out of Heaven to reign over Jacob's house 
forever. I saw their long-lost Joseph, meeting his penitent 
brethren with love and pardon sufficient for a guilty world. 
This, and a great deal more, by faith in God, and my faith 
has never departed from the Scriptures, this, I say, and more, 
I saw in Christ at His coming to judge the world. 

In the following year ('32), my attention was arrested to 
the subject so dear to the heart of every serious, thoughtful 
Jew, the loss of ten of their ancient tribes ; and " where are 
they," became my constant inquiry. I undertook a volun- 
tary pilgrimage to the " Far West," believing that the poor 
Indians belonged to Joseph's house ; and I intended to abide 
with them until my change should come ; and mortality be 
swallowed up of life. All the dangers, perils, and sorrows 
of the way I took, seemed light to me, in my zeal for the 
" driven out," the lost sheep, once the increase of David's 
house, once his beautiful flock. It is not possible for me at 
this time to dwell upon the subject. It would fill more paper 
than is already occupied by this Address; and at last, I must 
confess, none but the all-seeing God of Israel, knows at this 
day, His poor outcasts by their true name. 

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go to Jerusalem. Not by an auricular voice ; for my inward 
senses alone felt the sacred sound, still and small, so as only 
to be known in the heart ; but plain as the outward Letter of 
the Word, and absolute as " go thy way Daniel till the end 
shall be ; for thou shalt rest," &c. I was at Fort Leaven- 
worth, opposed by a Commissioner on Indian affairs, and the 
Commander of the Fort. I sought in secret, help from above. 
I appealed to my Father on high. I was stopped at the end 
of one sentence (" my Father, what shall I do ?"), with the 
following nine words, " Peace be unto thee : thou shalt go to 
Jerusalem." Is it not very remarkable, that I instantly rose 
from my knees, filled with perfect peace and contentment 
like a weaned child ? " Thou shalt go to Jerusalem" did not 
harass, or confuse me at all, although I was several thousand 
miles distant from the means of conveyance ; and knew that 
my journeys toward the Atlantic Ocean, must be pursued in 
face of danger, exposure, hardship, and toil. 

In the year 1337, (April 4th) I entered, by Jaffa gate, into 
the Holy City. My suite was a muleteer, an old Greek 
woman, and a little boy. When the walls first appeared, 
the muleteer, gave a shout : 

" Signora ! Koodsh." — I put my hand over my mouth, and 
shut my eyes; and he was silent. 

I was never poorer at any time, than on my finish of a 
pilgrimage from Philadelphia to Mount Zion, via England, 
Gibraltar, Alexandria, Beirout, Jaffa, and Ramla. When I 
left P. I was in possession of about* Fifty Dollars. 

At Gibraltar, I had the privilege to see in a Consul for 
these States, a very intimate friend of my lamented brother 

* £ 10 sterling; and a few pieces of silver. 
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Samuel ; and the Consul aided me to the amount of one 
hundred and forty-one dollars. He is not paid to this day. 
My Father in Heaven knoweth my sorrows. 

One month I was permitted to stop in the Cazenoria of the 
Latin Convent; and on the morning of my departure, I 
kneeled down in as sore distress, and with a heavier burden, 
than at Fort Leavenworth. I lifted my helpless hands, and 
uttered my mournful cry unto the Lord; and was quickly- 
relieved of my agony, by the following words: "Go now, 
my daughter, and I will bring thee back again." It is truth, 
that in a moment, all my sorrow was hid from me; and 1 
thought myself the happiest of accepted souls in the Beloved. 

In 1839 (July 10) I commenced my second pilgrimage to 
Jerusalem, from New York, via England, Gibraltar, Malta, 
Alexandria, Beirout, the mountains of Lebanon, Zidon, 
Tyre, Acra, and Ramla. When I left N. Y., I had about 
five hundred and seventy-five dollars. My second pilgrimage 
was marked more strongly by Divine Protection, than the 
first, as I undertook a land journey from Beirout. I was so 
shielded that I did not even know the Bedouins, until they 
passed by, (staring at me, and I at them) until my guide 
said " Mushtieb Abidon;" and drawing his hand across his 
throat, gave me to understand, that had they met us by the 
river Kishon, I should have been killed. 

My second arrival at the Holy City, was on Good Friday, 
and the Passover was two days after. I now have to report, 
that five hundred and seventy-five dollars, lasted about as 
well as the former fifty; and there was a cause ; for care- 
lessness, negligence, or something worse, kept my hard 
earned goods, in Philadelphia, and I had to provide as I 



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coul'd. I expected, when I left N. Y. in July, to receive 
them at Gibraltar, the October following; but I was dis- 
appointed. I had to send twelve letters, before they were 
sent to Gibraltar; and I was compelled to leave Jerusalem, 
(after a sojourn there thirteen months,) on account of the 
emptiness of my purse; and found my goods at Beirout: too 
late ! ! ! 

I returned to America in '42; and commenced writing 
my testimony to the literality of the holy prophecies, without 
any encouragement at all from my fellow mortals, and I 
pursued a course of writing and publishing, in the midst of 
conflict, opposition, and poverty, until my body seemed to be 
hanging over the grave,, and my mind and heart so pained 
me, that I lost all desire to continue my work. 

In 1845, I gave up publishing with a quantity of MSS. 
on hand; and engaged in selling Patent Pills. At the time, 
I felt justified, because my motive was, to earn my bread, to 
pay my debts, and return to Mount Zion, to close my weary 
eyes, and sleep, till Jesus' voice shall rouse my body into 
Life that never dies. 

On the 16th of September, 1845, 1 left this country, "the 
land (i. e. America) where my infancy wept," to cross again 
the trackless ocean, with my sickness and tear-dimmed eyes, 
longing to look once more on Olivet's fair summit, where 
stood the Prince of Peace, blessing His "little, little" flock, 
on the day of His return to the Father. 

I have considered very seriously, the contrast between my 
two former voyages across the Atlantic Ocean, from America, 
and the last; and many regrets have I felt on the same ac- 
count; for while, at heart, I was a pilgrim as before, the 



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short, outward sight, of my poor fellow worms, could only 
recognize me as a speculator or trader, for wings to carry 
me to the Holy City; and I must own, that the appearance 
was unfavourable to all my former character, as a disciple 
of Him, who never had one penny about His lowly, yet 
heavenly person, in all His career upon earth. 

My foreign Agency, was proved very soon after my 
arrival in England, a failure to me; for a Proprietor was 
there, whether true or false, I leave 

I resigned my agency in less than six months ! 

I returned to America in less than a year from my depar- 
ture. 

My hope, that I shall revisit Mount Zion, and on that 
sacred ground yield up the ghost, is firm in 1847; but the 
trust, or faith that inspires this hope, as the fruit grows upon 
a tree, is tried in the order of my dear Redeemer's course, 
even poverty; and in 1847 I do not feel that the Lord 
requires me to face a selfish world in quest of mission alms: 
so, prayer to Him that regardeth even the little sparrow, is 
my sole relief. 

I have been more sickly since I took that agency than 
before; and my spirit has sustained a severe ordeal; but the 
Lord has never, (that I know of) written upon me insin- 
cerity toward His great Name. Indeed, I am conscious of 
the reverse; and I will now write to the Jews, what I have 
never said to Christians (i. e. so called). 

I know that my name is written 

In Heaven ! ! how unworthy of such grace ! ! ! 
1847, 1 have thought, would witness the return of the Lord; 
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given for the king of Tyrns to appear in Eden, as the 
anointed cherub that covereth the true Name; and tokens 
of the great crisis are fewer than in former years. There is 
one at present, striking and wearisome to the little ones, the 
feeble remnant, who confess Christianity, and love Jerusa- 
lem, and her children; and it is "slumber on the eyelids" 
of the watchmen. It is said that infidelity is increasing 
among the Jews. I fear this is the case in France, Germany, 
and America. 

Famine, wars, pestilence, earthquakes, and signs in sun, 
moon, and stars, are still among the signs of the times. 
Abounding iniquity is another. 

Still I may say, the slumber on the lids of watchmen is 
the chief token of an apostacy that is ripening, or rather is 
ripe for a universal flood of evil upon the earth. 

Since 1847 commenced, I have thought more about the 
Jews than ever before; and sometimes, in my solitude, I 
mourn aloud, "How long, Lord, how long" wilt thou 
hide thyself!" It has been in my heart for months to 
address the Jews, giving my testimony to the Glorious Gos- 
pel of the grace of God; and the Praise of His Anointed, 
the King that cometh in the Great and Dreadful Name of 
the Lord. I hope the Lord Himself hath appointed this 
work for me, as in ancient time the women were acceptable 
in working for the tabernacle; and every one that was 
willing-hearted brought an offering unto the Lord; and the 
laver of brass for the altar of burnt offering, was made of 
looking glasses of the women that assembled by troops at 
the door of the tabernacle of the congregation. This laver 
of brass was for the priests to wash their hands and feet, 



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when they came near to the altar to minister burnt offerings 
unto the Lord; and women furnished the material for 
making this holy vessel to hold water for preservation of the 
lives of the priests. 

0! if my testimony is true, which I have written concern- 
i ing the Great Bruiser of the Serpent's Head, I am sure, I am 
very sure, the glorious Lord will put in it the water of 
cleansing, although my offering is so' small ; for He will 
never reject His own truth for His Name sake. 

I am not ashamed of the Gospel of Christ, which I read 
in the Law and the Prophets. I own the Master in every 
type which foreshadowed His birth, death, resurrection, 
ascension, and coming to judgment. I believe every word 
in the prophecies have been, or shall be fulfilled, and ac- 
complished; and I read of Jesus in all the rolls. 

" I love the Incarnate Mystery. 
"And there 1 fix my trust!" 

I compare the ceremonial law with the holy prophecies. 
I carry the sixteenth chapter of Leviticus over to the twenty- 
second Psalm, sixty-ninth Psalm; and the fiftieth Verse of 
the eighty-ninth Psalm. 1 then go to the prophets, and bring 
Isaiah 52 and 53, Micah 5th c. 10, Jonah 2. 3, 4, Zechariah 
13. 7, and Daniel 9. 26. 

I then take the sixteenth chapter of the Book of Leviticus; 
and call it the greatest thing in the whole world. I say, the 
Book in which this chapter is placed, represents a form of 
religion, that is not, of man but from -God. It is Original, 
Divine, and developes the principle of cause and effect. 
This great chapter carries evidence* of the cause, and 
demonstrates to me the result. I see Grace in it; but I 



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cannot say Grace, Grace to it, except it is proved by fulfil- 
ment; for it is a prophecy, and coming immediately from 
God, it is the secret counsel of God, exhibited in embryo, 
before the Levites are called; for their vocation is in the 
Kingdom; but Aaron and his sons in the Sanctuary. New 
Sanctuary means a Sacred Asylum; and God appointed an 
outward form, while Himself, the primordial substance, con- 
stitutes it holiness, according to His own Will; and Death, 
Life, Good, Evil, Blessing and Cursing, are all directed by 
One Existence, even the God of Israel, who is pleased to 
appoint a man to officiate for Him, and for me; and this 
man is ordered, authorized, and fitted to appear before God, 
and make an atonement for me once in every year, to cleanse 
me, that I may be clean from all my sins, before the Lord. 
V. 34. "An EVERLASTING Statute!" 
This holy Officialty is not controlled by the Delegate. He 
is under restraint by the party He represents; and receives 
his orders from God, by the mouth of a man, that is nearer 
than himself to the God of Israel. Personal holiness is 
required of the Delegate; and beyond this, perfect obedience 
to every form of the rule, and an awful proscription is added, 
Which I -read as the second death, or excision . of the soul 
from God. If this man should come before the Lord upon 
the Judgment Seat, except the Lord first appear in the cloud 
(which is heaven) upon the Mercy Seat, he must die! After 
the anointing, and wearing the holy uniform of God's pro- 
viding, he is dependant as ever, and liable to infirmity as 
other men. 'Suppose he fails, what becomes of the people 
he represents? Did Aaron fail? Not in the above particular, 
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atonement for the sins of the people, in carrying the names 
of the children of Israel upon the Breast Plate, and Blessing 
the people of God. 

His priesthood has failed. This is truth; and can never 
be restored. This is truth. The Levites shall be restored ; 
for their calling is in the Kingdom; but Aaron's house never! 
The Levites have their descent from Phineas and not from 
Aaron, in the restoration and glory; and they shall walk 
bofore the Lord's Anointed forevermore, in the New Cove- 
nant of Life and Peace. 

A very important question arises now; and I must write 
the question, and answer it, by the scripture of truth. 

If Aaron's hand must rest upon the head of the scape- 
goat, and Aaron's voice must sound a confession of all the 
sins of the children of Israel, and all their transgressions in 
all their sins, putting them upon the head of the great, and 
then sending him away by the hand of a man of opportunity, 
into the wilderness, is not the responsibility upon Aaron, 
according to the act, while the sins of Israel are upon the 
scape-goat? I answer yes. Aaron must come out of the 
holy of holies, for testimony that his ministry is acceptable 
with the Lord. See Leviticus 16. 34. "And he did as the 
Lord commanded Moses." 

But — the Sanctuary, the tabernacle of the congregation, 
the Altar of burnt offering, the holy attire, Breast Place, and 
mitre, where are they, in these last days? They have failed 
from Israel. 

The Everlasting Statute is before me in the Books of the 
Law; but the means are missing, and what is the fate* of 
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" Hath God cast away His people ? 
« God forbid ! 

a God hath not cast away His people whom 
"He foreknew." Paul to the Romans 11. 1, 2. 

I then say, the sixteenth chapter has been fulfilled in part ; 

and will be finished at the coming of the great and dreadful 

Day of the Lord. 

Can I prove this ? 

Aaron died at Mount Hor, in the land of Idumea. 
Aaron's house failed at Shiloh in the Promised Land. Ark, 
Altar, and burnt offerings ceased at the time of Caesar's con- 
quest of Jerusalem. The lawful place of holy service is in 
possession of the Turks; and the Moslem Standard com- 
mands the Holy of holiest gates upon earth; but it is always 
shut, and fast sealed up. It is never opened. The Turks 
have a tradition, that should one Christian enter in by that 
gate, Mahomet loses his reign. The enemy is to be dis- 
missed ; and Israel's Prince shall sit in that gate. Ezekiel 
(the Strength of God), 44. 1, 2, 3. 

I now commence my proof labour on the subject of fulfil- 
ment of types, as set before me in the sixteenth chapter of 
Leviticus, the Book of the Sanctuary. 

It is written that Aaron was commanded to enter the Holy 
Place within the Vail, before the Mercy Seat, with two offer- 
ings for himself, and three for the congregation of the Lord. 
The offerings for Aaron were also for his house. Aaron 
must bring them all (five in number), with him into the Holy 
Place. 

Aaron must offer first his sin offering for himself, to make 
an atonement for himself as a man, and to deliver his house. 
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Aaron must then offer for all the congregation, two kids of 
the goats, for a sin offering, and one ram for a burnt offering. 

I observe that the sin offering for Aaron, and the sin offer- 
ing for the people, are mentioned as immediately necessary 
for himself and the people. The two rams are kept from my 
sight for a time. 

The two goats are for the Lord, and for His people. The 
Lord demands blood, and His offering must be slain ; and 
the Priest must offer incense therewith, upon holy fire before 
the Lord, that He may offer also for the Altar, &c, &c. ; and 
then come out to sprinkle them with the Blood, to cleanse 
them. Lots are cast ; and the goat that is for the Lord is 
slain ; and his blood cleanses the Altar, &c. The other goat 
is preserved alive for a testimony ; but he is sent away far 
from the camp of Israel, even unto a land not inhabited (by 
man), his head covered, and loaded with the sins of the 
children of Israel. 

The sin offering for the Lord, I see standing at Pilate's 
bar ; and He is led from thence to the place of skulls. He is 
a sin offering in that day. He died unto sin, when He died. 
That was us ; and for us. 

The sin offering for the people, must live unto God. Thus 
the live goat is sent away from our sight; and the High 
Priest comes forth to the people, prepared to finish His great 
work, for which king David desired the Lord to build the 
walls of Jerusalem, as it is written in the fifty-first Psalm, 

" Then shalt thou be pleased with the sacrifices of right- 
eousness: with burnt offering, and whole burnt offering: then 
shall they offer bullocks upon thine Altar." 

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sprinkled upon the Altar for the people by the High Priest ; 
and a cloud of incense must ascend up, to cover the Mercy 
seat, that the offering an atonement for himself, even a young 
bullock, may be accepted, that his life may be preserved. 
The connection is so very close between the High Priest and 
the congregation, that one interest is demonstrated, therefore 
all the people must pray for the Priest to come out safe. 
Then, as death is not acceptable to God, by itself, there must 
be a live goat presented before the Lord ; and this is for the 
people, the Lord being satisfied for Himself, with the blood 
of the slain goat, and uses it for His people, because the live 
goat is a testimony for the slain, and visibly bears upon his 
head the cause of the other's death. 

Sin offerings are all finished by the death of Christ. His 
death is accepted on account of its own merit, as the slain 
goat was accepted, that its blood, sprinkled upon the Mercy 
seat, and before the Mercy seat, upon the Altar, and upon 
the horns of the Altar, seven times each ; and once upon the 
Mercy seat eastward. Genesis second and third chapters. 
Leviticus 16. 16 and 19. The Tabernacle also must be 
cleansed by sprinkling of this blood. 

No more sin offerings are necessary ; and God will have 
no more, therefore the means in their typical import having 
answered the same purpose, as the typical Sanctuary, Altar, 
and Tabernacle, all that is required of my honourable friends 
the Jews, is, to be satisfied in the satisfaction of God, to ac- 
cept of what God accepts ; and to be reconciled to God in 
His own way, praying that their own High Priest may come 
out of the Holy of Holinesses, with their names engraven 
upon the Breast-Plate of His Righteousness, and " Holiness 



244 ADDRESS TO THE 

to the Lord/' inscribed for them, upon His sacerdotal crown 
forever and forevermore. 

If two goats and one ram are necessary for the whole con- 
gregation of the children of Israel, for a sin offering every 
year, what an alarming consideration must be present to the 
mind of a serious Jew, in these last days, that they are in 
arrears to God almost six thousand offerings, and are not able 
to pay one, having neither Ark, Tabernacle, Altar, or High 
Priest, and shut out from the spot dedicated by their God 
unto His great Name ? 

Never did the God of Israel signify to His people, that He 
would accept of a substitute for blood. Without the shed- 
ding of blood, there can be no remission of sins ; and the 
whole plan of redemption is marked with Blood. I see it 
drawn in the holy ritual, which is my school-master unto 
Christ. Now He is in the Holy of Holinesses, I cannot 
touch one ceremony belonging to it ; and if I did not believe 
in Christ, I should not dare to touch the Bible, seeing there 
is no one authorized to sprinkle me or the Book. 

I do believe in Christ ; and I find He is a more particular 
Master than Moses; for He reproves all within me; and 
shows me in His Law, even by Moses, His exceeding hatred 
of my nature's evil, and that one wandering thought, one idle 
word, or the omission of any duty, is sin before His holy 
eyes. How glad is my soul, to hide in the wounds of Jesus, 
wherein there is unceasing intercession " Father forgive." — 
Such has been my refuge and my portion in the land of the 
living (I mean such as it is, in the interregnum period from 
the falling away of the Christian Church (360), unto the 
Glory by Messiah), for thirty-six years ; and every day that 



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passes by, is only " vanity of vanities," except the grace of 
trusting in that great Name, " The Saviour of Israel, and 
hope in the time of trouble." 

" Jesus ! I love Thy charming Name, 
" 'Tis music to mine ear ; 
" Fain would I sound it out so loud," 
That all the world might hear. 

If this is delusion, if it is falsity, the strength thereof in- 
creases with my days ; and opening morn, the glowing noon, 
and sober eve, meet me saying, " Blessed Jesus !" I expect 
to die so ; and hope in that Name to live again, and praise 
Him forever and ever, in a world without end. I can say of 
a truth, that in the Name of Jesus, is invested all my preser- 
vation from evil, whether of sin, the punishment of sin, or 
the malice of Satan and his seed. I am convinced of sin by 
the Scriptures, that I inherit this form of evil, passively. See 
Ps. 51. 5. This separates me from God. I know there is 
no help for this evil, this side the fall of Adam, except by the 
Breath which originated motion upon the moulded earth, 
called Adam ; and it was not the order of G od, to take a por- 
tion of the ground on which the first human rebels trod, to 
make another man in His image, in the same way as at the 
first ; but it must be confessed by every intelligencer in the 
heavens, that God's order is preservation of Himself ; and a 
portion of Himself was in Adam, out of whom Eve was 
taken by the Lord God, whose positive edict could not be 
revoked, but at the expense of His Honour, therefore Re- 
demption of His possession must be manifested, which could 
not be accomplished by annihilation of the earthly pattern of 
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Creation in ruin, by the resumption of His own quality of 

being, to Himself, and sustained the form till toward the close 
of a day with Him : then the form itself suffered the other 
part of the edict, in its name Adam ; but came up again, by 
other names, yet destitute of the lost essence, until the fifth 
day came round, in which animal life was manifested " very 
good/' but — not in the image of God, which is, Immortality: 
> then, the fallen form of the sixth day's creation is recognized 
in a mystery of contrast ; for Original Life re-appears, but in 
the same form visibly, as Adam after he fell : I mean " the 
likeness of sinful flesh," not sinful flesh, but the image of it, 
which is infirmity, or helplessness, and such is infancy. 

In this manner, I am convinced of sin passively, which sin 
is not my blame, in the abstract, but is surely my misery, 
even privation of being, from which (as, convinced of sin 
another way, even by accountability, as a believer in the 
Mystery of God), I am redeemed by the Innocent Blood, 
which the Law never provided but in type, i. e. passively 
innocent blood, even animal, and not capable of sin in itself, 
which, for a time was constituted righteous, yet not capable 
of righteousness itself; and yet righteousness is signified by 
the passive innocence of the blood ; and contented the Lord 
God, while the four days are going their round, from Abel to 
Noah, from Noah to Abraham, from Abraham to the Law, 
and from the law to the fullness of time, that ushers in the 
last days. See Gen. 49. 1, 2. 

If the mysterious birth of the Great Supplanter, developes 
to my best thoughts two opposites; and these equally concern 
my Creator's glory and my safety, why am I involved in 
blame for praising His manhood with Hosanna, and washing 



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His feet with my tears, seeing that I am convinced of sin, and 
trace my sin to Eden? It did not please the Lord God to 
measure for my grave a span of the soil ; but to bring me 
through childhood, youth, and middle age, to the rugged 
steep of life's decline; and experience teaches me, as the 
Holy Scriptures, that 1 am accountable for my Eden fall into 
the animal state of God's Creation, while the least particle of 
unbelief concerning the Mystery of Redemption remains in 
me, even by temptation, through " weakness of the flesh," 
that draws back from the efficiency of the Offering in Mary's 
arms, which is the Lamb for purification, the sacrifice of two 
turtle-doves, or two young pigeons, being only sufficient for 
the poor woman in her own estate. My survival of infancy 
constitutes its accountability, therefore, by faith I echo the 
sound that shook the place of Christian assembling, even "the 
Name of Thy Holy child Jesus;" and hail His sacred In- 
fancy my emancipation from original sin, or the sin of Adam; 
and this faith I see, is my strong guard to defend me from 
the enemy, while I follow the Cross, or wait at the tomb, or 
meditate on the ascension, and succeeding Glory. 

I am convinced of sin actively ; and this requires the death 
of the Holy Jesus, redeemed as His infant person was, by a 
pair of turtle-doves, or two young pigeons. 1 know that on 
the fifth day from Creation, the animal creation must not be 
offered for man's sin. It is the birthday of animals, and is 
celebrated as very good. One man takes their place upon 
the Altar, who once accepted a single ram to deliver Isaac; 
and this was a burnt offering; but, in the fullness of time, the 
provided Lamb of God takes the place of all sin offerings ; 
and He is the bird slain for the leper, as the goat for the whole 



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congregation of Israel, or as the Lamb for the sin of the 
world. 

I acknowledge that I am greatly indebted to the Moral 
Law, consisting of ten words of God, which were spoken by 
the mouth of the Lord God, and written upon two tables of 
stone, by the Power, as with the finger, i. e. the Spirit of God. 
In the first Statute I hear the Redeemer of Israel pronouncing 
His absolute Decree that shall stand forever (Ps. 33. 11), as 
well as giving a charge of fidelity to His elect. 

The first tables were broken to pieces on Mount Sinai. 

The second were put in the side of the holy Ark, and 
were conveyed safe over Jordan, and placed upon Promised 
Land. 

" God is a Spirit:" He is everywhere present. One wan- 
dering thought, or vain desire, is virtually setting Him in 
the rear — " thou hast been weary of me, Israel." 

I bless the Lord, that He hath so written this Statute, 
that I can read with my eyes open on the Gospel of Christ, 
that I am interested in His keeping it. " I have glorified thee 
on the earth." John 17. This He did; and He said, that 
He sanctified Himself for the sake of His sheep. 

If any prophet, or teacher, say to me any thing contrary 
to the Law of the God of Israel, and urge me to believe in 
any other god than the God of Israel, I must say to them, 
" The Lord rebuke thee, Satan," and I must not keep 
company with such at all. 

The Redeemer of Israel is the true God; and Eternal Life. 
I love that Blessed Statute. 

" Thou shalt have no other gods before me. Moses and 
Paul were men; but not like the men of this time. The 



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first was a faithful servant in the house of God. The last 
was a faithful ambassador for Christ to the Gentiles ; and he 
said, " The Jaw is holy, just, and good." I have not the 
least hesitancy in testifying that Paul, the Apostle of the 
Gentiles, was as faithful to the God of Israel, as Moses, 
their Lawgiver and King; but Moses was exalted, and Saul 
was humbled. While I marvel at the prayer of Moses 
recorded in the Book of Exodus, thirty-second chapter, 31st 
and 32d verses, I am enabled to sympathise with Paul, in his 
sorrow for the Jews, and if there is a balance of respect in 
regard to office, I believe it is due from me to the man that 
was caught up to the third heavens, as he saw and heard 
things unspeakable, or not lawful to be revealed on earth. 
The Lord came down to Mount Sinai, and his chariot was 
a cloud, to which He called Moses; and Moses was with the 
Lord forty days and forty nights; but Paul was caught up 
into the third heaven, whether in the body, or out of the 

body, he could not tell. Great men! both — Moses and 

Paul — but they must not get before Christ in my heart. I 
can mourn with Christ over the Jews, without wishing 
myself accursed, or praying to have my name blotted out of 
the Book of Life; and this fact is one thread of my evidence 
that Christ will shortly return and deliver Zion. I feel as 
though Christ cannot love me, except I love His dispersed 
families, Israel and Judah; and if you, my honourable 
friends, do not love me because I confess Christ, if you 
anathematize me for my testimony, and should even seek 
my life, I must continue in love ; and mourn for you, with 
Christ, who has taught me to pray to the Father, that His 
kingdom may come on the earth, and upon earth His will 
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may be done, as it is done in Heaven; and Christ is my 
pattern in Heaven, as He was upon earth; for, as it is written, 
" Sit Thou at my right hand, 
" Until I set thy foes for thy footstool," 
so He has done ; and there He is exalted, the Prince of 
Peace, exalted to give repentance to Israel, and remission 
of their sins, in the season appointed by the Father. Obe- 
dience is as requisite in waiting, as in suffering ; and as I 
know that the exaltation of Christ in Heaven is personal, so 
also, I am certain, I am sure the God of Israel is humiliated 
upon earth. He has no altar, no temple, no priest or sacri- 
fice after the pattern of His outward Sanctuary; and His 
people are sifted among all nations, like as corn as sifted in 
a sieve. Why is this? Because of disobedience to His 
commands, the people He foreknew must be punished, and 
in their stripped and troubled state, He is humbled upon 
earth. About half the population of this terraqueous globe 
are Pagans, the other half are Jews, Christians, Indians, and 
Mahometans. What a scene to contemplate! The last is 
an abomination of desolation to the Jews, for they invoke 
the name of a man that established himself by cruelty ; and 
promised a paradise planted in lust. The Christians ! what 
do they represent ? Scattered fragments of a noble Ruin ! 
I do not decide that they can even be so discerned ; but facts 
are stubborn things; and as men do not gather grapes from 
a thorn bush, or figs from the thistle plant, I shall venture 
to opine, that even fragments of the pure and undefiled 
Religion, taught and exemplified by Christ and His apostles, 
are very rare, and very precious in these times of the Gentiles. 
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the robe without seam, that Christ will own He wore in His 
humiliation upon earth. 

I am the true church, says the Armenian ; for 1 descend 
from St. James. 

I am the true Mother church, says Rome ; for I descend 
from St. Peter. 

I am the true church, says Russia ; and Rome and all the 
rest, are usurpers. These three profess belief in the Trinity ; 
and say prayers to the Blessed Mother of my Lord. 

" Other foundation can no man lay, than that is laid, 
which is Jesus Christ." 

"When ye pray, say Our Father which art in Heaven." 
" One Lord, One faith, One baptism. 
One God, and Father of all, who is 
Above all, and in you all." 

Paul again. " I bow my knees unto the Father of our 

Lord Jesus Christ, of whom the whole family in Heaven 
and earth is named." 

Israel is the original name in the holy scriptures; and 
Christ is their King. I do not read the word Jew, while 
David the King had a ruler in Jerusalem, to sit undisturbed 
upon his throne. In my English Bible, it is recorded five 
times: once b.y Jeremiah: once by Zechariah; and three 
times in the Book of Esther. 

Jeremiah records the word Jew in the same chapter with 
the siege of Jerusalem by Nebuchadnezzar. 

Zechariah represents it a prophecy of the restoration of 
Zion. 

Ezra names it on Mordecai, (bitter contrition) who is a 
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sitting in the gate (see Genesis 22. 17 ; and 24. 60), of a 
Gentile empire city ; and riding upon the royal horse, 
arrayed in royal apparel, with the royal crown upon his 
head, and preceded by a herald, proclaiming, THUS 
SHALL IT BE done to the man whom the king delight- 
eth to honour.— Isaiah 62. 2. Messiah is the Glory of Israel; 
and the man of sorrows shall be King of kings, when His 
Bride hath touched the TOP of the golden Sceptre. 

I should find great difficulty in my way concerning this 
change of name upon the chosen people; and equal em- 
barrassment in using the term Christendom, at this day, 
had I no expositor of the subject in the scripture, and in 
the Books of the New Covenant dispensation. The eleventh 
chapter of Paul's Epistle to the Romans (to my view) solutes 
the mystery, assisted by the first verse of the 65th of Isaiah. 
The latter is exemplified by Cornelius, an officer in the ranks 
of Ceesar Augustus, Emperor of Rome, as the head of the 
church of God among the Gentiles, unto whom Peter was 
sent to preach peace by Jesus Christ; but Peter did not 
ordain Cornelius for a preacher, nor any body else, did ever 
Peter ordain to publish the word of life. It is righteous to 
note, that the Gentiles were not called to believe on Jesus, 
until the Jews had murdered holy Stephen. 

I shall now introduce the testimony of Paul for his nation, 
which he addressed " to all that be in Rome, beloved of God, 
called to be saints:" 

" God hath not cast away His people which He foreknew." 

"Have they stumbled that they should fall? God forbid." 

« The gifts and calling of God are without repentance." 

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mystery (lest ye should be wise in your own conceits) that 
hardness in part is happened to Israel, until the fullness of 
the Gentiles become in." 

" And so all Israel shall be saved, as it is written, there 
shall come out of Zion the Deliverer, that shall turn away 
ungodliness from Jacob." 

I have set these parts of the chapter before my eyes, as a 
looking-glass reflecting the mind of the Spirit, by which 
Paul wrote to the church at Rome. 

I shall now remark that the apostle evidently claimed an 
original election for his nation, which Rome never could 
boast, although she had persons in her borders, of Gentile 
flesh, who were beloved of God, and called to be saints: yet 
he owns that the Gentiles obtained mercy, through the 
unbelief of his people; but had their place in the favour of 
God for a time — a limited period. 

The expressions " graffed contrary to nature into a good 
Olive tree," ought certainly to put every Gentile believer in 
the Gospel of Christ, upon thinking what is exactly his 
position in Grace, while Israel is broken off from Christ; and 
to reflect that only by faith they can stand. 

"A wild olive tree," graffed into "the good Olive tree," 
« partaking the root and fatness of the Olive tree," intimates 
the privilege of enjoying the promises and benefits of the 
Kingdom of God, which is righteousness, peace, and joy in 
the Holy Ghost, that were made to, and provided for, the 
branches of the tree, now broken off, that the good tree 
might flourish. These graffed in branches were in a 
ransomed state, by faith: in case of failure, the wild olive 
must be cut off; and the good tree is, as before, the same 



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good tree, and shall have his own branches again, putting 
Manasseh in the place of Dan, not forgetting individuality. 
See Exodus 32. 33. 

Until this takes place, the sacred title of Jesus, which is 
Christ, may be continued on the many hundreds of different 
sects, and Jew upon the heads of chosen sons, shall continue 
to mark in my estimation, the peculiar privilege of Judah, 
even in that day when all Israel are saved. "I will save the 
tents of Judah first." 

I believe the church fell away in accepting a secular arm 
for her help ; and that her great offence is taking the sword, 
so that the vanquished party (the Greek, or eastern section) 
is just as well off as the other ; and the Reformation (so called) 
still bears the sword, and Dissenters disown the person of the 
Great King upon David's throne in the time appointed by 
the Father. 

I am now looking for the result of a falling away from the 
truth, according to Paul's testimony to the Thessalonians. I 
expect the Lord will soon accomplish His word by Ezekiel ; 
and Overturn, Overturn, Overturn, will witness a short work 
in the earth ; and then He shall come whose right it is to 
reign. But — oh ! the apostasy on both sides is so awful, so 
dreadful, that is crowned by the devil's great wrath in man ; 
and avenged by the wrath of the Lamb, human language 
fails to express the varied horrors of the scene ! 

It is my belief that this "strange work" is dated in Eve's 
temptation by the Serpent ; and the " strange act" decreed 
upon Adam's fall into the animal; for "lust conceived brought 
forth sin, and sin finished, brought forth death !" The Mys- 
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What a curse upon this fruit of transgression; and what is 
the Serpent, that even six thousand years must be given to 
the reign of death, his delegated king, before the Prince of 
the power of the air, can be influenced to take refuge in the 
swine of swine, which is the Man of sin, his fellow usurper 
over the Eden of the Lord God ! Only in human nature 
can Satan be destroyed; and whether Cain, the first man, is 
the last tool of the old Serpent, which is the Devil and Satan, 
or whether the post is reserved for the first seducer of Israel 
to idolatry, of the tribe of Dan, or some modern autocrat of 
that tribe, it is all the same thing in one or another ; for Sa- 
tan's power is limited, and the Lord will rebuke him, and 
even the wrath of man shall praise the God of glory, and the 
remainder thereof He will restrain. Satan with all his works 
shall be destroyed; and Eden exhibit glory and beauty that 
shall never fade away ! 

What am I, to write or speak upon such a theme ? A 
little worm! the weakest of all my father's house; a reed 
shaken in the waters, bruised by the rough winds, and not 
broken : smoking flax unquenched, waiting with trembling, 
while the judgments tarry, hoping for victory, yet faint often 
in my sighing, and find no rest. In following up my testi- 
mony from the depths of man's fall, I have seen nothing to 
glory in, but the Cross of Christ ; nor any triumph over my 
primal foe, but in the resurrection of my Lord from the dead. 
Why should I reluct from this confession to the dispersed of 
Judah, in whom I recognize his human lineage ? Shall His 
humiliation offend me on account of their unbelief in the 
glorious Mystery ? God forbid ! Nay. I call upon Heaven 
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He shall be Praised. 
All nations shall call Him blessed. 
And Israel shall glory in His Name. 
Unto Him every knee shall bow: 
Unto Him every tongue confess, 
Unto Him be ascribed Honour 
And Glory, thanksgiving 
And praise forever — 

So be it, or Amen. 
As I am just closing, to say farewell — the commandment 
given by Malachi, for these days, is present before me ; and 
in the form of a humble entreaty, I now write the same for 
the Jews : it is the command of your King. 

" Remember ye, the law of Moses, my servant, which I 
commanded him in Horeb, FOR ALL Israel, with the 
statutes and judgments." 

I add " By humility, and the fear of the Lord, are riches, 
and honour, and life." 

Peace, Peace to Jerusalem ; and Peace upon Israel forever. 
Farewell ! 

HARRIET LIVERMORE, 
tfl Pilgrim and Stranger. 

New York, April, D. 1847. 



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Our 

Father 
Which art in Heaven, 
Hallowed be Thy Name : 
Thy Kingdom come; 
Thy will be done 
In earth 
As it is in Heaven : 
Give us this day our daily bread, 
And forgive us 
Our debts, 
As we forgive our debtors: 
And lead us not into temptation, 
But deliver us 
From the evil one, 
For thine is the Kingdom, 
And the Power, 
And the Glory 
Forever, 
Amen. 




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NOTE FIRST. 

" Sanctify the Lord of hosts Himself; and let Him bs./your fear, and let Him 
be your dread. 

"And He shall be for a sanctuary ; but for a stone of stumbling, and for a rock 
of offence to both the houses of Israel ; for a gin and for a snare to the inhabit- 
ants of Jerusalem. 

"And many among them shall stumble and fall, and be broken and be snared, 
and be taken." — Isaiah 8. 13 — 15. 

"Lord of Hosts," i. e. Armies, the Name by which God is called ; (see 2 Sam- 
uel 6. 2). The first mention of this title of glorious import to holy angels, and 
the chosen people, is made by a woman. Like Eve, Hannah of Mount Ephraim 
confessed to the Divine origin of Messiah, as Judge to the ends of the earth. 
David declares that the Lord of hosts is the King of glory (Psalm 24. 10); and 
God (by the mouth of David) announces a decree of establishment of His King 
in Zion, saying, "Thou art my Son," &c. It is written (Isaiah 43. 15) that the 
Creator of Israel is the King of Israel; and the church proclaims Adonai Judge, 
Lawgiver, Saviour, and King. Isaiah 33. 22. 

"And He shall be for a Sanctuary." The obvious meaning of the word sanc- 
tuary, in verse 14 Isaiah 8, is an asylum, and a security. Who, among the chil- 
dren of men (that have felt their meanness (in God's sight) as "but dust and 
ashes" (Gen. 18. 27), their sinfulness by conviction of the Holy Spirit, and their 
need of salvation from God), will not desire a Sanctuary Divine ? How confident 
was royal David that Adonai would hide him in the Secret of God, even in His 
tabernacle, which is the human nature of Christ! Directly opposite to David's 
faith, stands that giant of hell, Unbelief; and by the old Serpent's influence, 
turns the honey of Gospel tidings to wormwood and gall. To Eve he said, Eat 
of the tree of knowledge, and "thou shalt not die." To man (spiritually) dead 
in trespasses and sins, he says, there is no truth in the Great Book, especially 
the New Testament. The shortest road to everlasting ruin, is contempt of the 
Holy Scriptures ; and careless reading of original prophecy leads to this broad 
and frequented path, to the dark abodes of the devil and his angels. The wily 
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him, if they reject Divine Revelation ; and that there is no midway between 
faith and unbelief. Faith, that stands by the Holy Scriptures, is deaf to his sug- 
gestions and enticements. She listens to none but God, the Lord God, whom 
she steadily follows from Eden to Bethlehem, and from Bethlehem to Calvary; 
and to a mourner for sin (whose eyes are fixed upon " the accursed of God," for 
man's sin), faith gives her shield; and Mary Magdalene knows her Lord, as the 
King of Eden, while He hangs upon the tree ! But to Caiaphas, and all his 
company, Jesus was a stone of stumbling and rock of offence, and so He is to 
the unbelieving Jew or Gentile, to this day. The miraculous birth, the vicarious 
death, the glorious resurrection and triumphant ascension of Christ Jesus, the 
Lord of hosts, are subjects that cause many to fall, who will be ground to pow- 
der by this very stumbling stone, at the second appearing of Christ, the Lord Gf 
hosts. 



NOTE SECOND. 

The Remnant whom Adonai shall call. [See page 70, 1st Address]. The 
derivation of the word remnant is Latin, a dialect purely Gentile. It comes 
from Latium, the ancient name of Italy. (See Ash Diet.) The definition of 
remnant, either substantive or adjective therefrom, answers for my application to 
the saved ones of Judah, and his associates out of Jacob's trouble, which is Anti- 
Christ; for they are the third part, elect to be brought through the fire of Divine 
Jealousy, and wrath of the Lamb, clear of the mark of the beast from the bottom- 
less pit, to whom Christ at His glorious epiphany shall give repentance and for- 
giveness of sins. They remain, or survive, after the pouring out of seven vials 
of wrath, even the emptying of that mixed cup, which is called the fury of Ado- 
nai, that destroys every follower of Apollyon; and to this Remnant of the Dis- 
persed, and to the ten lost tribes Christ will give a new heart and a new spirit, 
according to His New Covenant, to the praise of His grace. 

But — the word remnant, in some parts of the scripture, is set only for Christ, 
as the last candidate for David's throne ; and great care should be observed in 
appropriating the substantive to His people at all. My humble resource as a 
reader of the mixed language, is attention to the context. For instance — " then 
the remnant* of His brethren shall return to the children of Israel."f This text 
speaks a volume of itself; but an auxiliar is presented for summary conclusion; 
therefore I shall adduce the context : 

"And He shall stand, and feed in the strength of the Lord ; 

" In the majestyt of the name of the Lord His God." I refer a patient inves- 
tigator to our Lord's prayer. John 17. 

" For now shall He be great unto the ends of the earth." 



* Heb.— " Excellent One." t Micah 5. 3. 

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I pass to the seventh verse : 

U A dew from the Lord ;" and to the eighth, 

"A lion among 1 the beasts of the forest ;" — and compare Isaiah 53 with Micah 
6. The expressions, " shall stand and feed," &c., Micah, I connect with Isaiah 
53, and parts of 10— 12 verses. 

It is written that Adonai shall swallow up death in victory. Christ tasted 
death for every man, when He poured out His soul. In His resurrection, He 
swallowed up death in personal victory. At Lazarus' grave, Christ stood in the 
majesty of God, veiled to human sight, but known to death, which resigned the 
entombed, and then Martha saw (in Jesus) the Glory of God. 

In Isaiah 10, Christ is the remnant of Jacob, that shall return unto the Mighty 
God.^See v. 21. His raised body went up to the Holinesses, and shall come 
again ; but not in the likeness of sinful flesh (i. e. infirmity). At His second ap- 
pearing, He is " The Mighty One." There is a connection with the escaped of 
Israel, also, in this text ; but the twentieth and the twenty-second verses, are en- 
tirely devoted to them ; and the Apostle Paul, in his labour to convince Chris- 
tians at Rome, that God's election of the twelve tribes of Jacob, was never to 
fail, quotes to Isaiah 1st and 8th chapters, concerning the remnant. Nor did the 
Apostle contradict himself at all, by asserting afterward, that 
"ALL Israel shall be saved." 

It is evident that Christ at His second coming, saves the remnant that survive 
the judgments ; and the ten lost tribes. 

The prophet Joel connects the deliverance by prayer, with the called Rem- 
nant, that may be Christ, as seen in Daniel's vision ; for there is no transmission 
from sin and misery, to holiness and bliss, save in Christ, the Remnant of Da- 
vid's house, that came of a spotless virgin into the world ; and to Him, as the 
Seed of the woman, is given authority to deliver Zion in the set time. 

Now, compare Malachi 3. 16, and 4. 2 and 5, with Christ's words, John 6. 37; 
Daniel 12. 3, with Revelations 15. 2, and 14. 5 and 11. 13. 

Look at Isaiah 1. 8, 9, and 10. 20— -22 : then read the words of Christ, as 
recorded by Matt. 13. 31, 32. And lest some precious reader should be too much 
hurried by the world, to look for this parable, I will put it forth on this page. 

II The Kingdom of Heaven is like to a grain* of mustard seed, which a man 
took and sowed in his field, which is indeed the least of all seeds. But when it 
is grown, it is the greatest among herbs, and becometh a tree, so that the birds 
of the air come and lodge in the branches thereof." 

I do not intend to deny the spiritual meaning of this parable ; but I will never 
resign its literality. I believe in the original election of the children of Israel, 
to be unto God a kingdom of priests and a holy nation;" and by Infinite Wis- 
dom they are apprehended in Christy Paul being their pattern of conversion to 
the Truth. 

The words, " children of Israel," are as literal in the New Testament scrip- 



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tures, as in the Book of Exodus, or any other portions of Holy Writ. I aui con- 
strained to assert this especially in regard to the sealing of God's servants, pre- 
vious to the uttering of seven thunders, and the pouring out of seven vials of 
wrath ; and I can bring Ezekiel 9. 4, to prove that this work is performed in 
Jerusalem. Should an objector oppose me by an inference that might eject the 
ten lost tribes, I instantly reply, that Joseph in Egypt was a child of Jacob Is- 
rael; but his brethren knew not that fact, until he told them of it. God only, 
knoweth His elect. It is plain enough, to reason and common sense, that ]44 
thousand of the children of Israel are sealed in the dreadful day that is hasting 
on, and is styled the day of wrath ; and are they not the remnant elect to escape 
the thrall and the doom of Anti-Christ? 



NOTE THIRD. 

" A bright cloud overshadowed them." (See Matthew 17, 5). 

It would seem very foolish to divest the above of its literality, as the matter is 
equally ostensible with the words "high mountain," or the names connected 
with this wonderful scene. But why not call this bright cloud " an inward in- 
fluence" as well as " the clouds of heaven" spoken of by Christ in Matthew 24, 
30? How inconsistent is anti-literal interpretation of prophecy ! 

I have but a few words to say on the subject, as I know but little. It is a 
very delicate theme to present in testimony, especially to the Jews; for the fact 
is obvious to a Gospel believer in the personal return of Christ to Mount Zion, 
that " the bright cloud," into which Jesus entered with Moses and Elijah, was 
the original tent (i. e. pavilion) of Adonai, called by Moses " the cloud}' pillar ;" 
and all the people that he led out of Egypt, saw it stand at the tabernacle door. 
It was a reality. Moses was in the tabernacle of witness, which he had reared 
by command of the Lord, who descended in His original tent, to proclaim His 
Infinity of grace, mercy, goodness, and truth. 

Over Mount Tabor this bright cloud rested, for a retreat at the height of the 
transfiguration of Christ, that Moses and Elijah might be instructed in the doc- 
trines of the Cross of Christ ; and it is no marvel that they* feared as they en- 
tered into the cloud, with God's rejected Lamb; for the Father was there, i 

I believe that Christ feared as a Son, as Moses and Elijah feared as servants 
of the Most High God, on entering the Presence in His human body that con- 
tained the necessary offering for sin. How awful is the thought, that Jesus 
feared to enter Plis own dwelling, because of infirmity, which He took for us ; 
and even thus veiled, was holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners, (by 
division from Adam fallen,) in the Holy Mystery of God. O ! what poor, miser- 
able wretches are we upon earth, to fear God so little, while we profess to come 
so near, as to call Him Father ! 

* Moses, Elias, and Jesus were engaged in conference, and there is no doubt but they enter- 
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From Tabor our Blessed Lord went to Capernaum' for the last time. From 
thence to the coasts of Judea by the farther side of Jordan, and then to Jerusa- 
lem, to be crucified. All the glory of Tabor, seemed to have departed with the 
cloud ; and Jesus stood at Pilate's bar, " a silent Lamb, and full of woes," to hear 
His people say, 

" We have no king- but Csesar." 
Not a voice in His favour was heard in Pilate's palace, except a whispered 
message from a woman, " Have thou nothing to do with that Just man." 

" If these things were done in the green tree, what shall be done in the dry ?" 



NOTE FOURTH. 

" The sabbath was made for man ; and not man for the sabbath ; therefore 
the Son of man is Lord also of the sabbath." Mark 2 and Luke 6. 

In creation of a visible heaven, and a terrestrial globe named earth, Light was 
called Day; and Darkness Night; but the latter is involved (as to space) with 
the first ; and evening and morning are within one day. During the first six 
days of time, it appears the Divine Hand (i. e. Spirit or Word) had no repose at 
all. But after the sixth evening and morning were past, and Friday eve made 
the beginning of a seventh Day, God ended His work ; and rested from all His 
work ; and God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it. 

Man (the Noble) is reported at the end of the sixth day ; and the manner of 
his creation is revealed more paiticularly after the ordination of a Rest. We 
observe a recapitulation, commencing at the fourth verse of the second Chapter 
of Genesis ; and the Lord God is honoured as sole Creator of heaven, earth, rasn 
and angels. God, the invisible Existence, (in Adonai, a manifested Being), is re- 
presented as a gardener ; and he planted a beautiful field for His Delight ; and 
put man therein, to dress, and to keep it. Thus we see, that in innocence of 
state, man is not to be idle ; and we may believe that he wrought six days, and 
rested on the seventh, which was made for the Creator of Israel, who is the Son 
of Man ; i. e. the second Man ; for Adam, in innocence, had no son. From the 
blessed Day of God's refreshment after six days' work, there is no appropriation 
of its sanctity until the Law of ten W T ords was written by the finger of God, on 
two tables of stone ; and then it is devoted to Adonai, Israel's Jealous God. It 
is the fourth Statute of the Great Commandments; and holy keeping of it after 
every sixth da)' in the year, is attached to length of happy life in the promised 
land. 

It pleased God, the Lord God of Israel, to constitute the Day, a Sign between 
Him and the children of Israel, that He would be their God, and they should be 
His people forever. As the day was appointed by Creation (for it was original as 
its blessing) we have no right to dispute the literality thereof as a Sign, nor the 
fulfilment in Blessing, jointly spiritual and literal for the Glory of God. It is 
sufficient to know that the Day was made for man, therefore Messiah is Lord 
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It is a Sign now, as it was in the wilderness, that God will rest in His people 
Israel, when they repent and turn to Him. 

At the coming of Christ, as Isaac's Fear, ten parts of David's beautiful flock 
were missing from the Holy Land. Judah and his companions (Benjamin with 
Levi, and a remnant of Manasseh, with a few names of Aslier and Naphthali), was 
in a state of rebellion against God, by means of corrupt teachers that inculcated 
precepts, or traditions of men, laying aside God's commandments. Jesus could 
not give fellowship to the scribes and pharisees, nor associate with them in doc- 
trine or in practice. The Sabbath was a feast of eating flesh, and drinking wine, 
instead of humility and sorrow for Joseph. The Blessed Jesus, was poor for 
Ephraim's sake ; and it is a fact, that He was obliged to lead His new covenant 
band of friends about, in open fields, or upon mountains, or in streets of towns 
and cities in Judea and Galilee. There was no rest for Jesus, until the Sabbath 
arrived, when His holy body reposed in Joseph's new tomb. As the Sabbath 
was His own, He illustrated the divinity of its ordination, by miraculous display 
of compassion, goodness, and mercy, in a lost and wretched world. The impo- 
tent man at Bethesda's pool, the blind man in the temple, a daughter of Abra- 
ham in one of the synagogues of Galilee, and a man that had the dropsy, (who I 
suppose had followed Jesus to the Pharisee's house) were healed on the Sabbath 
Day. In all these instances, Christ eminently hallowed the Sabbath Day, for 
He blessed it by His Father's power, and sanctified it by the mercy of God. 
The Jews were blinded in their minds, therefore they blasphemed. Error is 
dark ; and darkness is its crown. 

The Blessed One left the Sabbath as He found it; and His apostles were 
mindful of it. They went to the synagogue on the Sabbath ; and on the first 
day of the week, they assembled together, to break bread. It is a fact that 
Christians in the first, second and third centuries of the Gospel, observed the 
sign of the everlasting covenant ; i. e. they sanctified the Sabbath, as the fourth 
statute of the holy Ten, and the sign of their Lord's Joy. But the conversion* 
of an Emperor from heathenism to the Cross of Christ, was instrumental of de- 
priving the church of the sign that her Lord would return to Zion ; and that His 
Rest (upon earth) should be glorious. The great Constantine commenced at 
Rome the work of hiding the glory of the seventh day of the week. At Laodicea 
it was finished. Great is the loss to Christendom. Indeed the estimate thereof 
exceeds time. 

How great might be the advantage to Judah and his companions, (whether at 
Jerusalem, and in the holy land, or dispersed to the four quarters of the globe), 
that the true Sabbath of Adonai, is their sign of separation unto the Lord of 
hosts. Alas! that advantage will bless only a remnant, after all; for, in Christ, 
and in Him alone, is the Sabbath secure from invasion by the Beast from the 
bottomless pit, who will annul the covenant of God, by proclaiming himself god, 

* I fear Constantine the Great was no more than half converted, or he never would have 
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for three years and a half. How thankful should we be that satan's literal time 
on earth is short. Not days of years are afforded to Anti-Christ ; not a sabbath 
in his woful reign ; for he is equally the foe of the Law as the Gospel; and blas- 
phemes against every God, but the god of forces, or war ; and who can keep a 
Sabbath in his times ? 

At the end, the vision speaks; and Christ, the man for whom the Sabbath 
was ordained, comes out of Heaven, to take His Rest, and receive upon earth 
Creation's crown ! ! ! 



NOTE FIFTH. 

"If the foundations be destroyed, what can the righteous do?" Psalm 11, 3. 
This verse may appear (at first sight) disconnected with the context ; but literal 
interpretation of the prophecies, gives it a central position, embracing the efforts 
of confederate Evil, against the Anointed, and David's faith in Adonai, whose 
judgment on the Lawless one, shall be fire and brimstone. I take the word 
" foundations" in this verse, for God's Counsels, that originate in His immutable 
Love, but move in a channel too strait for human reason to accept, or justify, 
because their issue is Severity.* See Gen. 3, 15. What does the natural man 
know of the Love of God ? I reply, nothing at all. Of course no illustration 
can edify him. Many persons try to be religious, who resist the power that 
binds to God, which is faith ; and is as separate from sense of fallen man, as evil 
is from holiness. Say to such nominal or would be pietists, that God requires 
sympathy with His loss in the garden of Eden, and they would mock, or condemn 
you ; but the approach of death to his own firstborn extorts a cry for Divine pity 
on his grief ; and he craves sympathy from God and man. The Image of God is 
First and Last in God's Love. It is even the spring-head of the waters of Life ; 
and God was pleased to draw a pattern upon moulded earth, for His own Glory. 
The loss to God, (by Adam's sin) was infinite ; and recovery must involve infinity 
of power as of desire, therefore God decreed a humiliation of His Word, for the 
restoration of His image upon earth ; and its glorification even in Himself. The 
Divine counsel was plainly spoken in Eden ; and yet man did not understand it. 
Woman did. Eve believed in the Lord God. The decree was severe, on both 
parties, the enemy and the Avenger. 

I say the Decree was plain. " He shall bruise thy head ; and thou shalt bruise 
His heel." But the words " thy Seed, and her Seed," involve a mystery, which 
commands inexplicable depth, and requires God for its Interpreter, who chooses 
His own way, even by inspiration of faith. Literal exposition of the two par- 
ties concerned in the great strife, is safe. 

The seed of the serpent is wickedness. 

The Head of the serpent is that Wicked who is the man of sin. 
The opposite is a greater Mystery — 



* And Disgrace. 



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" Her Seed" — i. e. her Child ; and we know it is Sou ; for the rendering is 
male. 

" His heel" — mystery in the abstract ; but to faith, is the inferior part, even the 
adopted form, which is " the first born of every creature ;" for woman is con. 
cerned in its manifestation whose origin is a living soul, but created in Adam ; 
and lost in him, her relation to the created is sustained from Abel (her vanity) to 
Christ as the mother of all living, for destruction to her seducer. The Lord God 
Himself laid the foundations in Love to His image; and are His counsels to be 
destroyed ? Never. Satan did not know God. Had Satan understood the cha- 
racter of God, he would have shunned the feeble stem that is called woman. 
God respected His creation according to His own will. He chose to represent 
weakness in the ordination of a partner for the man; and respected the object, 
which was pure, passive Life in His holy hand. The serpent interfered. God 
judged him in the name of the woman's seed; and his destruction is sure. Alt 
the counsels of God are against woman's seducer ; and in favour of her Seed, 
Woman is as nothing, and vanity aside from Christ, but with the Lamb of God 
in her arms, she is the Mother of all living, 



NOTE SIXTH. 

Flavius Josephus. This name has a thrilling sound between Christianity and 
the oppositions of the Talmud, while eminence as a Jewish Historian must be 
allowed to the man by every candid investigator of annals relating to the de» 
scendants of Jacob, from Jesus' birth in Bethlehem, to the degradation of Jud;ih 
at Rome. As a theologian Josephus is not fully explicit to either party; but his 
declarations concerning Christ, are indicative of conviction that the Gospel is 
founded in God; and (without consulting the opinion of his people about him), I 
make up my mind to this, viz. that Josephus well understood the meaning of the 
Title Christ (which is Messiah), and Josephus says of Jesus, " He was the 
Christ." 

Josephus must have been a very little boy in the time of our Saviour's sojourn 
in this vale of tears ; and as he sprang from a sacerdotal family of very high or- 
der, was trained up for the priesthood, and strictly watched as a subject for per- 
petuation of the oral law, we may readily object that Josephus did not frequently 
listen to the voice of Truth, which is Christ our Lord. Once, however, was 
sufficient to bend a tender shoot from the original stock of the elect; and while 
I do not believe that Josephus was one of those favoured children on whom Jesus 
laid His holy hands, and poured the benediction of Heaven, I do feel a strong 
impression that the celebrated Jewish historian, (st}ded by Scaliger (" the father 
of critics"), the greatest lover of truth of all writers*), is mentioned by Matthew 
in his Gospel of the King, eighteenth chapter, and second verse. I do not stop 
there, I believe that Josephus was interested in the tenth verse; and I am cer- 



* i. e. on the Jewish wars ; and the destruction ot Jerusalem, 

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tain of the eleventh verse. Of course, if Josephus went astray in his after days, 
and never honoured the Cross, as Paul did, he resembled smoking flax at the 

best. 

Whether Josephus had faith in the person of Jesus, as inheritor of David's 
throne or not, he has certainly acknowledged the Divinity of his Messiah, as the 
following- extract from his Discourse to the Greeks (concerning Hades) will 
show : — " all men, the just as well as the unjust, shall be brought before God the 
Word ; for to Him hath the Father committed all judgment, and He, in order to 
fulfill the will of His Father, shall come as Judge, whom we call Christ. For 
Minos and Radamanthus are not the judges, as you Greeks do suppose, but He 
whom God and the Father hath glorified, CONCERNING WHOM we have 
elsewhere given a more PARTICULAR accoUiNt, for the sake of those who seek 
after truth." Page 3 of Dis. on Hades. 

In regard to the opinion of Josephus on his nation's woe by the Iron (A. D. 
70), I find it easier to abide by the summary conclusion he expressed in his ve- 
hement address to John (the leader of the war party), in June, A. D. 70, concern- 
ing neglect of religious services, than to refer the case to probable causes of the 
awful scene; but my own sentiments never vary from those solemn words of my 
Blessed Jesus, as recorded by Luke (Historian for "the Son of man"), 19th c. 
42 — 46 vs. ; and I feel an emphasis is laid upon the last clause of the forty-fourth 
verse, prepondering a mill-stone — " BECAUSE thou knewest not the time of thy 
visitation." O ! the curse of judicial blindness! It involves stupidity, impeni- 
tence, and unbelief. True is the sentiment (and worth dying for), that Jerusa- 
lem "God hath condemned," until she sees Him she pierced ; and awakes to 
exclaim, " Blessed is He that cometh in the Name of the Lord." 

At the present date (19th cen.), Jews and Christians are in great danger. In 
the pathway desired by a large majority, there is an awful abyss : travelling 
therein, either Jew or Christian, will surely fall 

1. The Jews that depend on their outward relation to God ; and consider 
original election an equivalent for personal obedience unto righteousness, lust 
after fleshly dignity, as their fathers for meat in the wilderness. Such persons 
will glory in a temporal King, expecting ease beneath the thistle's shadow. How 
great the deception ! Scarce will Hosanna revive an echo to Zion's vain joy, 
from far distant America, ere war's loud clarion will summons Judah with his 
companions, to fight on the side of Apollyon. Jews will not believe me. My 
testimony they may condemn as resembling the croak of a raven; and the pro- 
tracted sound is disagreeable as uninvited; but no Jew on earth can accuse me 
of trying to draw them away from the Sign of the everlasting Covenant. 

2. Christians that reject a literal interpretation of the Divine Apocalypse, and 
deny the appropriation thereof to the twelve tribes of the children of Israel, are 
in awful danger of falling away to Anti-Christ. After rejecting the golden Key 
that unlocks original prophecy, they will go over to the Jews, and take the mark 
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confess their privilege to a candicancy by The Blood of the Lamb, as foretold in 
the way of escape by sufferings (and loving not their lives unto the death, to 
avoid the Beast), rather than premature translation in celestial bodies to the air. 
I ask now, what will they inherit? Not the first resurrection surely; for their 
anticipated deliverance forestalls the resuscitating power of the King, who gives 
a certain sound to the last trumpet, that gathers to Him an army of martyrs and 
saints of all ages. According to Paul, those that are alive unto the coming of the 
Lord, shall not prevent them that are asleep ; and Paul says, " the dead in Christ 
shall rise first." All ascend at one sound of the trumpet. The question is at 
what juncture of the Beastly reign? I quote to Revelations 11. 12 and 15. This 
is the truth. Blessed are they who watch the signs of the times in the spirit of 
that holy petition " Thy will be done," &c. ; aud press their need at the throne 
of grace, of steady views and humble exercises respecting the coming, and never 
fading kingdom of Glory, that is purchased by 

THE BLOOD OF THE LAMB. 
What are the sufferings of three years and a half in comparison with Eternal 
Rest ? — or a few days' imprisonment, and death by violence or torture, to ever- 
lasting Life? 

Some persons may fear that they shall be overcome by temptation ; and deny 
Christ. This fear is sickly aside from prayer. He that sustained Polycarp,* is 
able to support us; and will do it, if we look to Him. " Looking unto Jesus," is 
a blessed means of sustenance to tried faith ; and Prayer is omnipotent. Jesus 
pleads for us on high, when we supplicate the Father in His Name; and it is our 
privilege to know that our faith cannot fail. 



NOTE SEVENTH. 
The rejoicing of a prisoner as the shackles are knocked off by order of his 
king, or governor, may be qualified by sympathy with his excoriated wrists and 
ankles; but gladness maintains a predominancy in his heart. So is the Pilgrim's 
case at her egress from the miseries of the Press, as a publishing Authoress. 
Writing has been to me a delightful employment for the last thirty-eight years 
of my life ; but printing is " labour in sorrow." I am in Eden while I write ; 
but the other drives me out of her heaven-blossomed, ambrosial bowers, among 
briars and thorns. I was drawn into such predicaments (originally), by opposi- 
tion to public testimony by Woman. My first book was in favour of it, published 
in the town where my father was born ; and for that testimony I took out a copy- 
right in my own name. If I had never preached to public assemblies, I believe 
I should never have offered my name to the world. Regret would be altogether 
vain. It could not avail to my repose, and I will not indulge it. Now, I under- 

* et The Proconsul of Rome said, reproach Christ." Polycarp replied "eighty-six years I 
have served Christ ; and He has never done me the least wrong. How then can I blaspheme 
my King and my Saviour ?" 



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stand the age in which my lot is cast, and hate my life therein. I have no con- 
fidence in its religions : professors and teachers are numerous ; but " the One 

Bread" — "the One Body" — see 1 Cor. 10. 17 — where is it? 1 do believe the 

crisis is at hand, that shall developc the piety of this time, as a counterpart of 
Jerusalem at the first Advent of Christ. " Woe unto you, scribes and pharisees, 
hypocrites !" 

I shall now refer to these Addresses, as my last book. In the first place, I 
request that my motive may engage some attention. To confess Chiist! This 
is my primary concern. I consider it a full confession of His supreme Godhead; 
and I glory in the Cross on no lesser account. The human life, even of my pre- 
cious Jesus, is an ellipsis, separate from Existence. The Word — The Image — 
The Spirit — is a complete circle of Unity ; and in that compass God moves to 
renew Creation. 

Atonement for man's sin ! Is it understood ? Alas ! — The first transgression 
seems to be rather an object of charity in these days, in place of hatred and 
horror. Eve was deceived. Adam was not deceived. He well knew the com- 
mandment; but "Ye shall be as gods!" — I can mourn for Eve in her shame; 
but my soul loathes Adam in his ruin; and I desire a Divine Atonement for 
Adam's awful sin in Eden, that his helpless race may not all perish, like Cain's, 
who was certainly of the Wicked One ! • 

To confess Christ to His Dispersed Brethren (according to the flesh), is the 
privilege of my old age ; and whether this faithful labour dies like all my former 
books, in a quiet style ; or is put on the rack, and stretched out of shape, I am 
contented as a weaned child, because I know that man's judgment is like his 
breath — a Vapour ! And the Lcrd will acquit me as He did Mary; for, in truth, 
I have done what I could ; and Blessed be God, my Saviour, icrever. 



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